Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:11:18 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] CT 110 Floppy

At 02:18 PM 14/01/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:15:06 -0800 (PST)
>From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] CT 110 Floppy
>
>> Do any old timers remember the ORIGIN of the phrase "hairy lightbulb"?
>
>  It's somewhere in the Libretto Mailing List archives.  I remember one guy
>asking a question regarding the Libretto PM and asking about that 'hairy
>lightbulb' as he described it due to the lines radiating from the lightbulb as
>if it has hair on it.  This was years ago.  Guess it stuck since then. 
>
>  Since it's over 10,000+ articles, I'll let some enterprising other to hunt
>down the original post ;)

Well unless the archives aren't complete, the origins of the 'hairy lightbulb' aren't 
to be found. I already did a text search and even the earliest archives that mention 
it do so as if it were already a well known concept :-/


- Raymond

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