From: Phillips Ted (phillipst_at_bah.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 1995 - 15:37:00 EDT
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I guess IBM is guilty of not following the first
tenet of conservation, while I'm guilty of not following the other two.
Sigh.
Cheerio!
P:\Ted phillipst_at_bah.com
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From: jloyless
To: phillipst
Cc: tp750
Subject: Re: Trackpoint caps
Date: Wednesday, July 05, 1995 11:38AM
On Wed, 05 Jul 95 10:44:00 PDT you wrote:
>BTW - The 8 caps came packed in small plastic ziplock bags, which were
>inside of two small cardboard boxes, which were shipped in a medium sized
>cardboard shipping container stuffed with styrofoam peanuts. The amount of
>trash I threw away from the shipping almost filled a small trashcan. Talk
>about overkill! Whew, no wonder IBM is going broke.
No! No! No! Didn't you notice?? Those weren't just meaningless little
cardboard boxes!! They're diskette boxes!! (When I was gasping in
amazement over the amount of packaging the caps came in, one of my
teammates noticed the similarity in size to a floppy and tried it out
- you can store up to 20 floppies in each box.)
Jane
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