🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.os.linux.development.system
Article #64

Re: Fruit-based computers (was: Plants as network medium?)

#64
From: stephen
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
31 lines
1805 bytes
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


-- 
Technical Details
Message-ID: <6urc39$9l3@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <35E704A9.5EFFDA9C@technocage.com> <6smqkd$qv0$1@firewall.tarcus.org.uk> <col5t6.na.ln@localhost.localdomain>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
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