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Article #103054Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: p.k... Peter Kerr
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00
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jab...@goodnet.com (the Jabberwock) wrote: > Turns out the tape storage had been moved from one desk to another. The > first desk was metal, the second wood. And when the janitors ran their > heavy-duty floor waxer (with that hefty electric motor on top) under the > shelf of the wood desk... guess what! > > (Can you say, "bulk erase?") sheesh, that's out of a.f.c archives, only when I heard it 28 years ago it was a tape being taken across London, and the clerk/courier put his briefcase with the tape under his seat on the Tube (London Metro/Underground) right on top of the 600 volt DC motor... -- Peter Kerr bodger School of Music chandler University of Auckland NZ neo-Luddite
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From: p.k...@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr) Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: <p.kerr-0509961733180001@news.auckland.ac.nz> X-Deja-AN: 178588970 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <32210B78.20E2@mcs.net> <4vsa8v$ctp@news.usit.net> <4vsg0a$pr4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4vvdb4$6a@lex.zippo.com> <502lt1$qj5@news1.mnsinc.com> <50ij66$9b8@news.goodnet.com> organization: School of Music, University of Auckland newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit