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Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?

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From: bi... Billy Chambless
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:00
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In article <4vt178$b...@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) writes:
 
|> Yes.  Every time I think "nobody could be THAT stupid", I think back
|> to my days at the Boston U. help desk.

Uh-huh.

I worked at a DoD Research organization where I saw stuff that made the
typical freshman look quite bright.

One scientist (GS-15 or so, PhD) had his secretary routinely log into
his account for him and print out his mail so he could read it.

Another guy comes to my office and says: "I keep getting this
"Out of Memory Error" .... I tried delting a buncha files, but it didn't
seem to help much....
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From: bi...@cast.msstate.edu (Billy Chambless)
Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
Date: 1996/08/27
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