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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: Installation: still not perfect
In-Reply-To: <199612051107.VAA22225@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 5, 96 09:37:06 pm"
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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Michael Smith writes:
> Greg Lehey stands accused of saying:
>> (following up to -chat)
> (damn, I meant to send it there, and then ol' automatic-elm-fingers cut in.)
>
>> > Hey!  I claim prior art on this one; the first W95 sticker I ever met
>> > still adorns my bin, alongside the Netware one.
>>
>> OK, I didn't expect to be that original, I just liked the way they had
>> prepared it so nicely.  It was rather appropriate, too, since the
>> first thing I did was to wipe Windoze 95% off the hard disk.
>
> The HDA in the Sharp units we have here at work even have a little
> sticker on them indicating that they were loaded with it at the
> factory; sheesh!

Yup, so did mine.  That's reasonable enough: after all, they need to
be able to recognize them at the factory.

>> The notebook also has an Intel Inside sticker on it.  Any idea where I
>> should stick that?  I was thinking of putting in on my old (1974
>> vintage) 8008 CPU board, but that feels like sacrilege.
>
> I have one on my old Casio calculator, and another on my SO's
> electronic toaster.

Yes, I was thinking of a toaster, too.

> I even followed the instructions in the Intel envelope that comes
> with the stickers (two little stickers and ten pages of instructions
> in six languages on where on the case they should be put; only in
> the computer industry...) so far as was possible.

You're lucky.  I have to peel mine off the notebook.

Greg