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- From: dhandly@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Dennis Handly)
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:04:58 GMT
- Subject: Re: HP cafe (was Re: Strange packaging technique)
- Message-ID: <31480241@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Cal Language Lab
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- >/ snow@netcom.com (Tim Szeliga) / 12:09 pm Sep 3, 1992 /
- >A few years ago, we got a disk drive in a big packing case. To lodge
- >the drive securely in the box, there was a heavy 20 inch length of 1.5"x1.5"
- >hardwood. Stenciled on the side (you're getting ahead of me here),
- >was the phrase (you guessed it) "HP P/N 19511-80014".
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- > Many's been the time when an object (or person) required delicate
- >adjustment and received a wallop from "the HP Part Number".
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- Heh, so that is where my manager's "HP Project Manager's 'Corrective
- Action Tool" comes from! :-)
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- I suppose he had to pay extra for the labeling.
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