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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Covenantor
"I’m thinking of writing letters, myself."

This is worthy of study all by itself. It makes you think in directions you would never have anticipated.

Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage
At the time, the poet's daughter and the world's first computer tinker were able to send letters back and forth up to five times in one day! That alone is a remarkable and thought-provoking difference from today.

Warning: Script writing and real brain engagement involved.

3,774 posted on 07/01/2018 6:22:06 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Not to mention fine motor control with a high speed data bus.


3,775 posted on 07/01/2018 6:24:41 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: NicknamedBob; Covenantor; Monkey Face

Speedy delivery of letters became less important when electrickal communication was invented.


3,776 posted on 07/01/2018 6:50:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: NicknamedBob

I decided to mop the kitchen floor.


3,777 posted on 07/01/2018 6:52:41 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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