Dan's Data has published issue #43 of their letters column

My letters column #43 is up. There's nothing very special about the number 43. I mean, it's prime and all, but it ain't no 42. Oh well.

In this edition, I rabbit on about 3D glasses and LCD screens, figuring out how many megabytes your MP3 player can really hold, further adventures in car-battery-assisted suicide, drives with balls, digital audio recording, the BTU output of a server room, a "new" product that isn't, and, of course, model tanks. And there are several letters from people who know how to fix broken CPU pins, in a way I hadn't thought of.

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