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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: New Half gigabyte ROM (uses)
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<encyclopedias are harder to ride than bicyclopedias>

| (2) What about using it for DATA?  Think of the information that can be
|     stored.  How would you like on-line access to the Encyclopedia
|     Britannica?  
| -- 
| Gary Levin / Dept of CS / U of AZ /

I asked about this when my wife and I bought our Britannica.  Sorry,
folks, the Britannica is NOT ONLINE.  They do the whole thing the
OLD OLD way, with bizarre tapes using 5-bit punches to run arcane
linotype machines, and so on.

Further, the illustrations in Britannica are some of the major reasons for
getting the thing, and they seem to think that these would not transfer
well to an electronic medium.

Oh well, staid conservatism kills another great idea.

Hutch