Re: Pointer: The Superhighway Steamroller

miked@CERF.NET (Michael A. Dolan)
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 14:33:08 +0200
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At 06:58 PM 6/27/94 +0200, Dan Hinckley wrote:
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>my my, I just loved the days of searching through piles of floppy disks 
>for the document I wanted. Oh joy.

If floppies are good, perhaps punched cards are better ?  I *always* found
what I was looking for on my punched cards cause they had the alpha tags
in columns 73-80.  I have an IBM 029 card punch for sale....... :-)

>On Sun, 26 Jun 1994, Frederick G.M. Roeber wrote:
>
>> Michael Hart, Director of the Gutenberg Project, just posted an interesting 
>> article to bit.listserv.gutnberg (well, he sent it to his mailing list,
which is 
>> gatewayed).  In it, he argues basically that WWW isn't cost-effective
whereas 
>> plain ascii on floppy disks is.
>> 
>> The article is copyrighted and reposting is explicitly forbidden, but I can 
>> refer to it:
>> 
>>   news:GUTNBERG%94062522535895@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
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