[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-A20 interface redesign

[Philip Hands]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> writes:

> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Paul NeoStormer
> <paulneostormer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would, but I'm a starving college student developing educational hardware
>> and software, if you'd asked me a month earlier or month later I'd probably
>> have had the cash to help out.
>
>  no problem paul, we will get there
>
>  ... hey you're not planning to do what one guy i heard about at
> imperial college did, are you?  he got his university grant in (this
> was 1987), paid his accommodation, then bought the best hi-fi stereo
> he could get, with the rest.  with the small change he went down to a
> local farmer's market, bought several huge bags of oats, emptied the
> drawers in his room, lined them with newspaper and poured in the oats.
> anyway, a few months later the hospital said that he was the first
> case of scurvy they had seen in decades :)

I heard that one as being about a Manchester student, so either I told
you that story and its morphed into an IC student since, or (perhaps more
likely) it's an urban legend.

Cheers, Phil.
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