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Comment by WalterBright | Hacker News Reader

> demise of suits and briefcases

I still have my Samsonite briefcase my dad got me as a graduation present. Having a hard shell, it is perfect for my laptop, wires, and other junk. I also enjoy being the only person with such a briefcase.

A pic of what it looks like:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SAMSONITE-Gray-Slim-Hard-Sh...

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I still want a Zero Halliburton briefcase. It would be wildly impractical for me, but I want it nonetheless.

If it helps, I bought one around 25 years ago. It is a thing of great beauty. But I’ve used it maybe twice, and lugged it through maybe six house moves since then. All a bit pointless.

The biggest thing that’s stopping me is that I can’t decide if I want to buy one that’s in pristine condition (and never want to use it for fear of damaging it) or one that’s beat up and has tons of imperfections (and feel bad about spending so much money on something that looks like it fell out of the back of a van).

I’ll likely eventually find one cheap at a flea market or estate sale. That, or end up buying a slim modern Pelican case for the same purpose.

After watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xz1Ye8I9NY I am tempted to set up a packet-switching network running something like https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549 using Zero Halliburtons (or knockoffs) for framing.

(alas, Concorde packet delivery no longer implemented.)

TEUs for Jumbo Framing?

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