Re: Cat bringing system down

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From: e... Eric P. Scott
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1990 21:18

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A few years back, when Hewlett-Packard was pushing touchscreens
(HP 150?), I read a letter in one of the magazines from ... I've
spaced it--it was somewhere in South America or Central America.
Anyway, it complained that HP had obviously failed to test their
equipment in non-US environments: in that part of the world,
flies were ubiquitous, and they seemed to be attracted to glowing
things, like areas of the screen labeled

	TOUCH HERE TO DELETE FILE
and
	TOUCH HERE TO CONFIRM DELETION

					-=EPS=-

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From: e...@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Cat bringing system down
Summary: Another animals-and-HPs story
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Date: 18 Feb 90 21:18:53 GMT
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