I have heard a rumor (urban legend) about some Paramount lawyers handing a "cease and desist" letter to two US Navy sailors who were selling "USS Enterprise" t-shirts and baseball caps at a Star Trek convention in San Diego.
Old, old, old, tech story. But I had a boss, once, who told me that he had once worked on a computer known as the CADET.
Boss explained that the name was actually an acronym, for "Can't Add Doesn't Even Try".
Apparently, the system lacked a hardware addition operation, instead using a ROM-stored addition table to perform addition.
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So, what they're saying is "Yeah, his car really did get a 5.4, but we don't want him to SAY so"?
I have heard a rumor (urban legend) about some Paramount lawyers handing a "cease and desist" letter to two US Navy sailors who were selling "USS Enterprise" t-shirts and baseball caps at a Star Trek convention in San Diego.
Old, old, old, tech story. But I had a boss, once, who told me that he had once worked on a computer known as the CADET. Boss explained that the name was actually an acronym, for "Can't Add Doesn't Even Try". Apparently, the system lacked a hardware addition operation, instead using a ROM-stored addition table to perform addition.
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