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I'd rather not turn this into a flame-war. I simply asked a question.
This is not a stolen or illegitimately acquired machine. It's a
machine that has been transferred between departments in a large
company. If you've ever worked in such an environment, you know that
when machines move, they frequently move without their original manuals.
In as much as the Internet is a dynamic medium populated by knowledgable
people, it might be much faster to ask a question here then to wait
days or weeks for IBM to ship a replacement manual. How can you assume
a machine is stolen simply because the manuals are missing? They could
be missing for any number of reasons.
Do you always jump to the worst assumption about new people on the list?
I was under the impression that this list was intended to be a serious
place to discuss important technical matters concerning Thinkpads.
In case you both really were joking, remember that I don't know you,
can't see you and wouldn't normally expect to be accused of being a
thief in a forum supposedly populated by mature technical professionals.
P.S. Thank you to everybody else who answered my question with helpful
advice (the drive is a doorstop), and no I can't sell it to anybody
regardless since it's owned by my employer, and if I sold it outside
of our Purchasing Department, it really would be stealing.
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X-ray Delta One to Mission Control - Transmission Concluded
On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, James Reno wrote:
> I could not have stated my thoughts any better! If you had the MANUAL you
> would read:
>
> "Neither IBM nor an IBM authorized dealer can make the hard disk drive
> usable."
>
> Reno
>