OT - Is this computer for real? (CORRECTION)

Stewart C. Russell scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 24 22:10:59 UTC 2005


James Knott wrote:
> 
> Well, now that you mention it, I do have some core memory here.  :-)

Hah, that's way new-fangled. I'll raise you a cast-iron-and-brass 
Monotype matrix, probably from some time in the mid-1900s: 
<http://www.woodsidepress.com/MONOTYPE.HTML>. They -- along with the 
Linotype -- were the forerunner of computerized typesetting systems.

cheers,
  Stewart
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