[Coco] Using Velcro to secure CoCo and MPI

[Torsten Dittel]

Manny schrieb:
> Heh. Velcroing... Not even a word is it? It looks so wrong in print.

FYI:

"1941: The beginning

The story of the discovery of hook and loop fasteners begins with George 
de Mestral taking a walk through the countryside.

The Swiss engineer enjoyed hunting. One morning in 1941, while returning 
from the fields with his dog, he noticed how difficult it was to detach 
the flowers of the mountain thistle from his trousers and his dog’s fur.

Surprised at the tenacity of the flowers, he removed them carefully from 
his clothing so that he could observe them under a microscope. It was 
then that he discovered why they clung on so ardently: the flowers were 
covered in hundreds of tiny but strong hooks and where thus able to 
attach themselves to animal fur and fabric.

George de Mestral, an experienced inventor, was able to see the 
potential of this discovery and developed it into an idea that, with 
much time and effort, would become a revolutionary fastening system that 
never jammed, and whose simplicity and strength superseded all previous 
systems.

Created from the first syllables of the French words velours (loop) and 
crochet (hook), the VELCRO® brand name has since 1959 been given to an 
extensive range of products that have greatly simplified fastening and 
closure operations"

(http://www.velcro.de/cms/History.6.0.html?&L=0)