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From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Fact or Fiction: NeXT Sells to the CIA
Message-ID: <90331.113724SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: 27 Nov 90 16:37:24 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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Here this! From the Rumor Central column, Nov 12, 1990 issue of PC Week:

``Wandering the weaving 747, the Feisty Meister of industry brouhaha
came across a Kattophile who's tapped into the Central Intelligence Agency.

Seems the agency has ordered 2,500 NeXT machines to use in its underwater
sonar-detection operations, for security and intelligence gathering.

No one really knows for sure, but the buzz is that---apart from the box's
undercover black design---the CIA likes the NeXT machine's enhanced
digital processing and sampling capabilities, and will be writing its own
program code.''

Fancy that. I'm skeptical too but you have to admit it's a wild rumor.

Sal.
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