SanDisk Cruzer Micro Flashdrive
This morning I learned that this device:
withstands the full wash-cycle (on ‘colors‘ setting) of the GE WSXH208A then the 50 minute dry-cycle (on ‘permanent press‘) of the GE DSXH47EGWW and still functions at full, or possibly improved, capacity (i.e. terminals cleaned of pocket lint).
“Spandau” (…in no way related to ballet, or: “Hitler’s Zipper“)
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One of the weapon’s most noted features was its comparatively high rate of fire of about 1,200 rounds per minute, twice the rate of the British Vickers machine gun and American Browning at 600 round/min. At such a high rate the human ear cannot easily discern the sound of individual bullets being fired, and in use the gun makes a sound described as like “ripping cloth” and giving rise to the nickname “Hitler’s buzzsaw”, or, more coarsely, “Hitler’s zipper” (Soviet soldiers called it the “linoleum ripper”). German soldiers called it Hitlersäge (“Hitler’s saw”) or “Bonesaw”. The gun was sometimes called “Spandau” by British troops from the manufacturer’s plates noting the district of Berlin where some were produced, much like the Germans’ own World War I Maschinengewehr 08 had been nicknamed. Notwithstanding the MG42’s high rate of fire, the Handbook of the German Army (1940) forbade the firing of more than 250 rounds in a single burst and indicated a sustained rate of no more than 300–350 rounds per minute to minimize barrel wear and over-heating. So distinct and terrifying was the weapon, that the United States Army created training films to aid its soldiers in dealing with the psychological trauma of facing the weapon in battle.
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– Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG-42)
