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Article #70Re: Fruit-based computers (was: Plants as network medium?)
From: Dale Pontius
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:00
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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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