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Article #103062Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: jo... John Winters
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <4vvdb4$6...@lex.zippo.com>, Helge Moulding <h...@slc.unisys.com> wrote: > >* the photocopy of the disk - why would the service center want a *copy* > of a disk? If the disk is defective, they have you send it in for an > exchange. I've heard this one from lots of places *and* experienced it personally. I'm sure it's happened many times. To you it may be obvious that a photo-copy is useless, but there are a lot of very baffled people out there. Whether they are right to be baffled or not is debatable, but to many end users, the whole business is weird beyond comprehension. If the support desk says "Send a copy of the disc", the natural thing to do is photocopy it. Why should it be different from everything else one is asked to copy? John -- John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
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