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From: bzs@WORLD.STD.COM (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Paperless office
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Date: 6 Oct 90 02:58:49 GMT
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I may have asked this once before here, but I've never gotten an
answer.

I remember being told (this could be an urban legend) that an early
use of telegraph lines was a device which would allow you to sign a
document on one end and a pen on the other end would
electro-mechanically duplicate the movements. This would be 19th
century.

Has anyone heard of this? If it's true it's an amusing predecessor to
some issues we are facing today. I'd love to have one of those boxes.

        -Barry Shein

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