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From: aaa@link.UUCP (Wale Akinpelu)
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Subject: Re: Micro needed for Nigerian University
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:04:17 EDT
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> I received a letter from the cousin of a friend of mine.  The
> cousin's name is Charley.  The following is an excerpt from his
> letter:
> 
> =======================================================
> I am a physicist working in Nigeira.  This means I need a computer
> 	which:
> 
> 	1. is portable so that I can carry it back and forth between
> 	Nigeria and here
> 
> 	2. can be operated on both 220v with 50hz as well as 110v with
> 	60 cycles/sec.
> 
> 	3. is dust proof because during the Hamattan season the
> 	extremely dry Nigerian air is saturated with dust particles
> 	from the Sahara desert.
> 
> 	4. must be highly reliable because service is practically
> 	non-existent.
> 
> I need a computer to perform three tasks:
> 
> 	1. Curve fitting -- I mean a regression analysis using least
> 	square method to get the best fit of the data points.  Both
> 	linear and non-linear curves will be fitted.
> 
> 	2. Plotting graphs -- the data must be plotted onto a
> 	two-dimensional graph containing the original x and y data
> 	points.
> 
> 	3. Word processing.
> 

Does anybody have the current  status on Charley's problem?  Someone asked  for
more information on Charley and I have not seen any response so far.
Or is the name just fictitious?

-- 
Wale Akinpelu
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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