[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <%V6_r.16972$_h6.13782 at fx03.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
>On 08/25/12 15:25, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> This saga just keeps on getting better and better!  Not better in the
>> sense that my request for the missing screws be rectified -- hell no!
>> Better in the sense that this is just all too FN ridiculous that it'd
>> be great material for a TV sitcom.
>>
>
>If this is a laptop, then the screws will be m series metric. Most likely
>m2, m2.5 or m3. I guess this must be the 4 screws that hold the hard drive
>into the caddy ?. Or, if these are the screws to hold the caddy in the 
>machine,
>then do the screws that you have fit both the hard drive and caddy
>supports ?. If so, then you can look up the hard drive part number, get the
>data sheet, which will tell you the screw holes tapped size.
>
>If you get what i'm driving at :-).
>
>Have boxes of m series screws in the lab here and could send you some if we
>knew what size they were.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris

Yes Chris.  I've already reported that I have 50 (it was the minimum order)
of such screws on the way.  The total, with shippin, was abotu US$6.00!

At issue is the dumber than a box of rocks mentality of Hopelessly Pathetic.
It shouldn't read "Invent" beneath the HP logo, it should read "Ignorant".

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