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From: pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: Re: Proto-assemblers anyone?
Message-ID: <Apr.7.22.20.14.1990.15755@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 02:20:16 GMT
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In article <Apr.6.01.58.32.1990.12593@athos.rutgers.edu>,
76276.27@compuserve.com (Dan Spitzer) writes:
> CNN and NBC news service tonight both ran short stories on a breakthrough
> at the IBM Almaden Research Center.  The story said that they had 
> successfully moved two individual Xenon atoms, one at a time.
...
> If anyone hears anymore about this I'd sure like some details!

The news story I saw showed them moving atoms into the shape of the
IBM logo, over a period of several hours.

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