3rd December 2005, 9:30 AM
They did literally hurl the things from the top of Nintendo HQ to test durability... Wait, that sounds a little urban legendish...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)