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tr...@lucent.com (Scott Forbes) writes:

>+-- Dan Hartung <dhar...@mcs.net> wrote:
>| Having worked the phones, I truly enjoyed this story the first time I
>| heard it ... but then I sat there looking at the minitower on my desk
>| and realized that *every CD-ROM drive* has this logo on the front that
>| says 
>|      compact
>|      d i s c

Well --- I just got out the flashlight and checked two of my three drives,
and both have the logo on. However, neither of them has it written in some
different colour (like, for example, black), but rather it is reliefed on
the tray. Now, given the usually low light around my place, the position of
the computer and the colour of the thing, it actually took me a while to 
find them.... (In case you wonder: One Sony, one Mitsumi. The third one is
in the 486 beneath the desk, I am not checking that one ;-)

>The variant I saw listed Australia as the point of origin, and emphasized
>that the drive had "4X" written on the front ("4X" is the abbreviation for
>a popular brand of Aussie beer, apparently).

Although that "Aussie" brand of beer is spelled XXXX. It's actually from
the sunny Queensland, but I suspect it will be a long time before someone
puts "VB" or "Fosters" on a CD-ROM, so that's OK....

Bernie "and I don't even drink the stuff" Meyer
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