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      I once generated poetry using 1940's vintage IBM plugboard-wired
accounting machines.  This was back in the 1960s, when computer time was
harder to come by.  I used an IBM 85 collator, a 402 accounting machine,
and an 82 sorter.  The basic technique involved imposing the grammatical
pattern of an existing poem on random words.  Some additional checks
insured that the word-to-word transitions were similar to ones that had 
appeared in other text.    

      The result was not particularly profound, but read well in spots.

					John Nagle