Re: >>French boot error message ???

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From: Opus-
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 00:00

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On Sun, 9 May 1999 14:58:35 +1000, "Rod Speed"
<rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> spake thusly:

>
>George Durbridge <gdurb@aardvark.apana.org.au> wrote
>in message news:7h33uo$m41$1@llama.teragen.com.au...
>> Rod Speed (rodspeed@ozemail.com.au) wrote
>
>>> Thats probably how it happened, the floppys were bought preformatted
>>> and he happened to get floppys that were intended for the frogs.
>
>>> You do ocassionally see that happen with the printing on the box etc.
>
>> Probably intended for the Canadian market,
>> with every second disquette formatted in French.
>
>I thought all the Quebecois were primitive yokels who wouldnt
>know what computers were if they bit them on the bum ?
>
Some of us in english-speaking Canada thought so too.

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