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Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?

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From: Rick Arnoldy
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:00
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>==========His Lordship, 8/23/96==========
>
>In article <4vkijd$i...@cloud9.net>, Kenneth Brody
><kenb...@cloud9.net> wrote:
>>
>>You mean like the people who are having problems with a program
>(back in 
>>the pre-HD days) and you ask them to send in a copy of the
disk, and you
>>end up receiving a Xerox(tm) copy of the disk?  (Seen it first
hand, not
>>FOF material.)
>>
>
>  ...or a woman I used to know who was writing documentation back in teh
>days when 5.25" disks were the norm, and had to add a warning in the
>install instructions "Do not remove diskette from black square
protective
>sleeve" after at least one person had tried...  
>

Back in my college days (82-86 - days of the 5 1/4") we were
instructed to hand in our assignment both printed and on a
floppy.  One person stapled his disk to his paper when turning it in. 

 
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Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
Date: 1996/08/27
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