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In article <1992Oct8.235240.10062@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) writes:
>In article <5357@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes:
>>Someone asked about eliminating the hardware password.  One
>>proposal put forward was to reverse the battery for a few
>>seconds.  This elicited the following response:
>>
>>--
>>Alan M. Marcum
>>NeXT Tech Support
>>amm@NeXT.COM
>>
>>Private P.S. to P.C.: thanks.
>
>	Who else missed the 8^) in my previous posting?  Has this symbol,
>or its many incantations, ceased to convey "not seriously speaking"?  I'm
>sorry if I insulted some of you by composing such a message.  Seems like
>they've lost all sense of humor (probably as a result of 3.0)!

Or have you?  Some of the suggestions put forth by Alan were positively
wondrously humorful.  Extinguish a match in gas?  Run gallons of water
through the fan?  I thought it humorous, and it's nice to see NeXT
employees actually contribute to discussions here.  Better not chase
them away, seeing as they've been so shy in the past. :-)

I decided to post this mostly because the reply reminded me of one
of my favorite computer documentation laughs of all time.  The original
users manuals for the Apple ][+ had a passage that mentioned how
sturdy the Apple ][ is; it said something to the effect that if you
take reasonably good care of it, it will last a long time unless you
do something stupid like "leave it outside in the rain or type with
a hammer."  I'd like to see more humor in computer documentation, it's
so refreshing.  (I remember getting a couple of chuckles going through
the 3.0 release notes, so I guess the folks writing them were starting
to go stir crazy by that time...:-)  )

>Private P.S. to A.M.M. and P.C.: G.F.Y.

What, no smiley?  :-), I think.  If it means what comes to mind
first, a smiley would have been _much_ more polite. :)

Oh, and this whole thing should be read with a big :-) all over,
since that's what's been on my face while typing it.  :) :) :) :)

Later, :)
-Don Yacktman :)

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