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From: archer@elysium.SGI.COM (Archer Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals  (A USEFUL SUGGESTION)
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 14:33:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 14:33:17 1987
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In article <104@uwspan.UUCP>, root@uwspan.UUCP (Admin) writes:
> 
> There was an article in a computer magazine a while back where Philipe Kahn
> (Mr. Borland :-) told how "perfect" bound books were made.  These manuals are
> literaly untouched by human hands!  They are printed, cut, bound, drilled,
> shrink-wrapped, and crated by machines.  Adding a 3 ring binder requires a
> PERSON to pick up each manual and place it in the binder.  If you want them
> to actually put it on the rings it takes even more time!  Time is money.
> I think he said that his order of 1000 manuals cost $500 for "perfect" bound,
> but > $5000 if 3-ring bound!
> 
> I know from experience that a 250 page book SPIRAL bound costs $3.50 in qty
> 500 to 750, so the $5.00 for 3-ring sounds like it is in the ballpark.

If you've ever been to Borland, you'll realize that Philippe was
engaging in another of his famous 'exagerations'.  The manuals are
indeed created by machine, but the disks are put inside the manuals,
and then shrink wrapped, by genuine human guine...um, beings.

By the way, never, ever, ever believe anything you hear Philippe Kahn
say.  


archer