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to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2004-01-27 10:12:00
subject: Re: m$ crap

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

 RJT> Tom Walker wrote in a message to Joe Nicholson:

 ->  Was it DELL who announced last year that it would no longer
 ->  have floppy drives in its new computers?  I would expect
 ->  other manufacturers to follow that lead in the not-to-distance
 ->  future.  Even AOL hasn't mailed floppies for a few years, which
 ->  lead to a decline in the availability of cheap-free disks. 

 TW>  Those AOL disks might have been free. BUT they were of the VERY
 TW> lowest Quanity and PROOF of the Addage that "You get What you Pay
 TW> for"

 RJT> Yeah they were.  I formatted 'em as I processed them out of the
 RJT> packaging,  and when I go to use them sometimes I have to do it again.
 RJT> If it won't format error-free on that attempt,  I toss it.

 RJT> Still not a bad deal considering I got a few hundred of the darn things
 RJT> for nothing.

Now they send the CD's and even the bulky CD storage packaging
is useless due to the distorting amount of pressure needed
to insert and remove the CD :-(
Just a larger than usual piece of junk mail.
 
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