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Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?

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From: Greg Limes
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:00
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Hugh Ashton <hu...@nexustech.com> writes:
| 
| I once had the job of doing the preliminary testing and documentation of
| some utilities for a computer maker. When it said "Press any key to
| continue" I regularly annoyed the head of software by pressing the
| Shift, Alt, Caps Lock, Num Lock keys, etc. while he said "When it says
| any key, it doesn't really mean it." We (I?) changed the in-house
| standard to "Press the space bar to continue".

Some smart-alek did the same thing to me at my first
job out of high school -- funny, every one else seemed
to deal with it, but he *had* to be a twink. So I wandered
over to his terminal (an ADM-3A, of course) with a black
marker and wrote ANY on his space bar.

Then I changed the prompt to "Press the ANY key to continue"
if and only if running from his account ... and only accepted
the space bar. :) :)
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From: Greg Limes <li...@straylight.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
Date: 1996/08/28
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