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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Portables on Airplanes - (nf)
Message-ID: <31@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 22:51:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  5 22:51:05 1983
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I once saw a kid playing one of those hand-held vidio games on an
airplane.  (This was around 1980.)  It was beeping up a storm and
driving everybody crazy.  The stewardess immediately told him to
stop - she said "it's not because of the noise; it's because it
might interfere with the plane's navigational equipment".  Actually,
I think it was really because of the noise, and she just didn't
want any argument, but I never asked.

There's another problem with portables - where are you going to
plug the thing in?  I haven't seen much that's battery operated
(yet), although I assume they are just around the corner.