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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Hospitality suites?
Message-ID: <3783@phri.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 15:36:35 GMT
References: <71673@pyramid.pyramid.com> <491@ssbell.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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kent@ssbell.UUCP (ssbell Admin) writes:
> Little pocket screwdrivers?

	Never underestimate the value of a good little pocket screwdriver.
Several (5?) years ago I got a LPS from one of the terminal switch
companies (Micom?) with a phillips on one end and a flat blade on the
other.  I kept it on my person daily until somebody stole it and wouldn't
give it back (not that he denied having it; he simply liked it so much he
flat out refused to give it back).  I mourned its loss.  Recently, Artecon
(I think I spelled it right; the pepole who make chassis and cable
extensions for Suns) had an ad offering the same screwdriver as a sales
gimick.  I jumped at it and now keep that one on my person.

	Everytime our Sun service tech comes around, he has a similar
pocket gizmo, but with a RS-232-sized flat blade screwdriver on one end and
a Sun-VME-chassis-screw sized hex wrench on the other.  Every time we ask
him if we can have one, but everytime he refuses, claiming Sun doesn't give
them out to customers, just to their service techs.  Listen up SUN:  that's
what you need at your next hospitality suite; the LPS's your service techs
have.  And dammit, if you give them away at a Usenix that I'm not at, you
better send me one in the mail!  The shoelaces were cute, but LPS's are
more useful.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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