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Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?

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From: kenb... Kenneth Brody
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
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