Re: Stupid Users

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From: zou... Athanasios Tom Zougas
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 16:38

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In article <1990Aug28....@specialix.co.uk> jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:

>gor...@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>>The guy who kept losing his disk, so he decided he'd stick it to the fridge
>>with a magnet...

>....The company running Structured Programming courses, who issued a free
>yuppyfax type notebook/time manager, with a pocket for floppies, the pocket
>being held shut by a magnetic catch...
>-- 

Many women's wallets (and some men's) now have the "hi-tech" magnetic
catch. I wonder how long it will take the credit card people (or the wallet
manufacturers) to realize that those magnetic stripes on cards soon
become useless.

Tom.

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From: zou...@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas")
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Subject: Re: Stupid Users
Message-ID: <90Aug29.123744edt.19120@me.utoronto.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 90 16:38:06 GMT
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