Brian,

I have emailed my questions to Professor Sundar and will
post his reply.

>I generally select a favourite when using identical public access
>machines.  As an undergrad at the University of Waterloo, my friends
>and I all had a favourite terminal room and favourite computers
>within them.  I'd usually be a bit irate to return from dinner to
>find somebody else on `my' computer.

This begs the question of what is a computers identity?  The
display + keyboard + mouse?

In the case of card punches perhaps Lindsay was attracted by the
refined kluncking and whirling of one particular machine.


derek

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