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Re: Never mind
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Goetz Neumann <[log in to unmask]>
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Goetz Neumann <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:47:25 -0600
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Bob Feighner wrote:
>
> Well, our LP printer must have recovered from it's spirng break hangover.
>
> I was writing down the model and serial # to initiate a service call. I > powered it up. This time, it went fine. I'll just credit it to divine > intervention, since the power up process did not work the previous 5 times > today.

Nope, it was simply afraid of the prospect to be taken into pieces.
I have found that threatening misbehaving hardware with a screwdriver,
a hammer or a soldering iron makes it cooperate very often .
Your printer is an example of a more intelligent device, as it already
anticipated your intention when you looked at the serial number.

SCNR, :-)

Goetz.

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