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Article #102933Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: kenb... Kenneth Brody
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:00
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Lon Stowell (lsto...@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com) wrote:
: In article <4vf2rs$f...@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> m...@cs.nott.ac.uk (Mike Knell) writes:
: >
: >Obviously, it's possible that people could be so stupid as to use their
: >CD drive as a cup holder, but since virtually anyone who uses a PC would
: >have seen a CD player at some point, or at least would have the brain
: >cells to rub together to work out that all the knobs and lights mean
: >that it's *not* just a pop-out cup holder, I'm pretty damn sceptical.
:
: Hmmmm. Ever work in a help desk environment for a "wide range
: of technically competent" users? Thought not.
You mean like the people who are having problems with a program (back in
the pre-HD days) and you ask them to send in a copy of the disk, and you
end up receiving a Xerox(tm) copy of the disk? (Seen it first hand, not
FOF material.)
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From: kenb...@cloud9.net (Kenneth Brody) Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/08/23 Message-ID: <4vkijd$ikd@cloud9.net> X-Deja-AN: 175978045 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <4vihvo$gcl@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com> followup-to: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, NY, USA newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit