Re: Call for submissions: Dadaist user manuals or: Stop before you whop!

Subject: Re: Call for submissions: Dadaist user manuals or: Stop before you whop!
From: "Meryl R. Cohen" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:07:34 -0500

At the Dawn of Time (1969) I received a Panasonic cassette player/recorder
for my 8th grade graduation. It came with a manual and a list ordered by
state of authorized repair places in the US. Rhode Island had a special
state heading that looked like this:

Phode Island
^insert R

Maybe this was a formative experience in my becoming a TW.

--Meryl

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I couldn't resist sharing this one...enjoy!
>
> David
>
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/09/user_manual_folliws/>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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