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Article #103079Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: Greg Limes
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:00
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 Message-ID: <x5swwyj2b80.fsf@straylight.engr.sgi.com> X-Deja-AN: 177188827 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> organization: The Negentropic Institute of Atlantis newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit