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[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

|Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
|> The storage issue is kinda peripheral though.  The things that me and
|> Alan and Martin and the rest WRITE in these discussions is 7-bit
|> ASCII essays.  I could write these same compositions on an Underwood
|> typewriter with little extra effort (it would be a bit harder to let
|> thousands of people read them within minutes that way, but that's not
|> about the document format itself).

Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> wrote:
|Not necessarily - see http://www.multipledigression.com/type/

But that's just a Smith Corona.  No self-respecting Underwood would let
itself get wired up.  Now those Martinelli's[1] are absolutely
profligate in their cyborg connectivity, but they're hardly to be
trusted because of their voracious, almost Pythonic appetites.[2]

[1] Hmmm... curious similarity.

[2] E.g., http://www.davidcronenberg.de/snslunch.html

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