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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cute LaserWriter Names (was "LaserWriter Startup Page...")
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Date: 17 Aug 88 04:20:47 GMT
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In article <9816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) writes:

>We had a LaserWriter called "Rich & Famous".  We then called the AppleTalk
>ImageWriter "Poor & Unknown".  A pity that the military has no imagination and
>I had to change them to something dull.

>Anyone else ever come up with any good network names?

Well, where I worked last summer I named the two laserwriters Bogart and
Becall.  I even found some digitized pictures of them and pasted them to the
LWs.  My co-workers found this amusing.

However, when I put startup screens and sounds on all the macs around the
office one morning (these people were mac neophytes, they had no clue how to
do this or how to stop it) they flipped.  They loved it.  Well, they did.
The boss didn't.  When I finally left to return up here to college, the boss
gruffly asked me to make sure I removed that "noise" ASAP.  I was so tempted
to leave them... no one there knew how to fix it... alas, level headedness
prevailed... but I always wondered what would have happened...

-Andy :-) :-) :-)


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