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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (150719)	8/30/2002 7:49:48 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585838

That doesn't mean there isn't still 10 good years in the business Storing data on mechanical devices will be as dated in ten years time as storing your programs by making holes in card seems to us now.

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (150719)	8/31/2002 9:11:36 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1585838

IBM had the best typewriters on the market. IBM Selectric. Wonderful machines. They were great. When I was in grad school, the "personal computer" was just coming into being (this was soon after the now famous articles in Popular Electronics which created the genre). Anyway, it was a favorite project for students to interface a selectric to a home-brew PC, since there were no printers available at reasonable cost. It was an interesting project, however, as the interface was non-trivial. Anyway, not only did it make a decent typewriter, you could actually build a blazingly fast 12cps printer out of it...