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- From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
- Subject: Re: Post-It(R) Notes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.213042.1521@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <77215@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:30:42 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <77215@apple.apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
- >
- >I am quite convinced that part of the user acceptance testing of the
- >Post-It Note was to make sure that the notes stuck well and detached
- >easily from a wide variety of human skin surfaces.
- >
- sorry to inject reality [tm] into the nice heinous discussion, but the
- real story is: post-its were an accident. some genius 3-m scientist
- made an adhesive he thought would stick REAL well. it didnt; it only
- stuck ok. the real genius figured out how to market this failed adhesive.
- and now, god curse his soul, he is rich and i am poor, but i do use
- of lot of notes.
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