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Article #64Re: Fruit-based computers (was: Plants as network medium?)
From: stephen
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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I think they tried this already; it was called the Apricot PC. Just didn't grow anywhere. In article <col5t6.na.ln@localhost.localdomain> dale@localhost.localdomain (Dale Pontius) writes: >In article <6smqkd$qv0$1@firewall.tarcus.org.uk>, > ianr@pobox.DUMPTHISBIT.quza.com (Ian) writes: >> In article <35E704A9.5EFFDA9C@technocage.com>, >> "Michael J. Fair" <michael@technocage.com> writes: >> >>> Hello all, at the risk of being flamed for crazy ideas I decided to >>> ask the following question. >>> >>> Would it be possible to use plants as the transmission medium for >>> networks? >> >> By a strange coincidence, there's an article on *fruit*-based >> computers on segfault.org... It's a spoof news site, so don't expect >> anything serious. The URL is; >> >I know this is all good fun. > >But take a look at the book "Slant" by Greg Bear. It is pertinant >to this thread, to say the least. > >Dale Pontius >edgehp AT together DOT net --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5392,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gidf5392,public X-Google-Thread: 102b32,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: 10669a,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gid10669a,public X-Google-Thread: 115fe3,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gid115fe3,public From: stephen@darwin.UCSC.EDU () Subject: Re: Fruit-based computers (was: Plants as network medium?) Date: 1998/09/29 Message-ID: <6urc39$9l3@darkstar.ucsc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 396075432 References: <35E704A9.5EFFDA9C@technocage.com> <6smqkd$qv0$1@firewall.tarcus.org.uk> <col5t6.na.ln@localhost.localdomain> Organization: UC Santa Cruz Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,bionet.plants