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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Design Philosophy
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 06:33:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 06:33:32 1987
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In article <4670@oberon.USC.EDU> humphrey@skat.usc.edu (Steve Humphrey) writes:

>Oh, sure Steve.  I suppose you would have a little dialog box :

 >	---------------------------------
 >	|				|
 >	|  You have just spilled your   |
 >	|  coffee into the top of your  |
 >	|  Mac.  Please don't do this.  |
 >	|		______		|
 >	|		| OK |		|
 >	|		------		|
 >	---------------------------------

Actually, the Lisa (also known as the mac XL) was designed so you could
spill coffee into the keyboard safely.  You had to look in the keyboard
troubleshooting section of the manual for the directions for cleaning
sticky, dried coffee out of the keyboard (you held it under a faucet
and a clever series of barriers kept the water away from the works.)
I don't know if the Macintoshes have the same technology, but they sure
don't mention it, either on screen or in the manual.

You've seen the quote from Duck's Breath Mystery Theater in the demo
stacks that came with hypercard explaining how to tell the difference 
between a personal computer and a coffee machine.


--- David Phillip Oster            --A Sun 3/60 makes a poor Macintosh II.
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --A Macintosh II makes a poor Sun 3/60.
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