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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 3.0 - Or how I learned to love the bomb?
Message-ID: <1575@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 09:23:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 09:23:07 1987
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Keywords: Word3.0, Bomb, style, normal, redefine

In article <876@eneevax.UUCP> hsu@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Dave Hsu) writes:
>Believe me, I'd love to try this, except that Microsoft succeeded in
>shipping me two copies of the Utilities disk, one of which was clearly
>labeled as the Program disk.

I once had engineering responsibility for a floppy-disk duplication
operation in a captive house (medium volume (would have been small,
except for all of the new releases and sizeable finished-goods inventory
:-))).  All of those little diskettes look an awful lot alike, you know.
If you stick a label on them BEFORE you duplicate, you run the risk of
shipping BAD media (they don't all work perfectly, you know, even with
media certifiers).  There are so many opportunities for something to go
wrong with duplication that I find it amazing that the duplicators do it
as well as they do!

This is not meant to excuse the above (an glaring error), but to serve
to instill a bit of compassion into all of us who benefit from the
labors of those who perform this service for us.
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."