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   if you want to download your data buy yourself a citizen.if you want to
have a bottom timer use a bottom timer.how much did that bridge cost you
anyway?i think i got myself a copy of decom and a bottom timer for about
$219,and i paid retail.wet notes an additional $10,all the tables i'll ever
need for less then $230. - john todd



On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Harold Gartner wrote:

> > speaking of computers,why would anyone bother diving a computer if he's
> >planning on violating it.or even better,the cyber diver who wrote "well,i'll
> >just get out of the water,but leave my computer in the water so it doesn't
> >lock out and i can use it for another dive later on".what kind of crap is
> >that.hell,maybe i should dive a computer all the time,i'll leave the
> >computer in the water to do all of the deco and i'll sit on the surface
> >drinking a six-pack with some cave diving instructors and smoke some dope
> >with the 'legends in their own minds' group. - john todd
> John,
> Your quote is out of context; this was in regard to the fact that the 
> Bridge II won't do gas switches, let alone trimix deco computations, but 
> I like the logbook features and use it as a depth guage and bottom timer 
> etc.  Thus, if because of gas switches, I can be out of the water before 
> the Bridge II says it's OK, the simple solution to avoid "lock out" -- 
> again assuming I'm diving tables (either trimix or Nitrox/Air with EAN80 
> deco) --  is to hang the computer on the line at the point when your 
> tables allow for ascent, but the Bridge II doesn't.  The only function of 
> the Bridge II is the divelog/upload at that point.
> I also don't some dope, drink six packs, or take crap from people who 
> misread posts.
> 
> Harold H. Gartner III
> 6900 Via Alba
> Camarillo, California 93012
> home: (805) 482-9743
> home fax: (805) 987-6804
> office: (805) 644-1061
> E-Mail:
> hgartner@ra*.or*
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> 
> 

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