Re: words to live by

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1985 16:13

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> WHO EXACTLY IS GOING TO SIT AND MAKE THESE FLOPPIES? The beauty of the
> current scheme is that while all good children are asleep (or up
> hacking) the news gets silently delivered, a phone is dialed, a phone is
> answered, chug chug, done. ...

Speaking as somebody whose original network connection was *manually*
dialed for about a year until we got an autodialer, Barry's got a point.
Our manual dialing ended three years ago, and I *still* break out in
smiles every time I hear the autodialer clicking away...
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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