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From: cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: "chooser"
Message-ID: <4982@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 05:44:45 GMT
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
Lines: 15
Keywords: magic

On an Apple Mac II, connected to an Appletalk network wherein resides
two Laserwriters, named "A" and "B" respectively (names have been changed
to protect the innocent), "chooser was invoked.

Then, the laserwriter icon was selected. "A" popped onto the screen
immediately. We waited for "B" which has been known to take its
time. Eventually, "B" also popped onto the screen. We observed longer,
remaining silent and motionless the entire time, and... "B" vanished!
Self-erased from the menu where it had sat with "A" for a few noble seconds.

As best as we can determine at this time, utterly no work was done on the
Appletalk network at this time. It is a case of true magic, unless
plausible reasons by "skeptics" can be offerred up here.

	Stuart