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Subject: re: $, semiology, ASCII, WAITS, SAIL
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 01:16:27 EDT
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From: Les Earnest <LES@SU-AI.ARPA>

Chuck,
Inasmuch as I designed the weird keyboard of that "highly specialized
Arificial Intelligence terminal usable with only one computer system, and
more or less useless for playing games" let me assure you that it *is*
useful for quite a few dandy games.  It also can function as a vanilla
ASCII Datamedia terminal if you punch the right buttons.  Meanwhile, I too
am reduced to using a Heathkit at home (sob!).

The last time one of the SAIL terminals was stolen, a Stanford AI Lab
alumnus working at Lucasfilm spotted it a year or so later being offered
for sale at a computer fair in San Francisco.  With suitably swift
cooperation from the police it was recovered.  The seller couldn't
understand how we knew it was stolen!

Cheers,
	Les Earnest