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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Computer Folklore
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Date: 27 Apr 88 07:47:26 GMT
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> "send us a copy of your disc in the post and we'll try to reproduce 
> the problem".  Next morning in a nice envelope arrives... a lovely 
> photocopy of the floppy.

This really happened with an HP Series 200 machine about 5 years ago. I was
the lucky Support Engineer who received the photocopy (two-sided, as the
disk was two-sided!!) from a to-remain-unnamed System Engineer out there in
the real world.

Not a legend, but valid folklore.

Scott