In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/04/2005
   at 11:53 AM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>I accept this as definitive.  I don't have access to this 
>publication.  So  the 2305 was/is a disk instead of a drum.   Cool. 
>But still I wonder why so many of us thought it was a drum way back 
>when,

Google for "urban legend" or "Mencken bathtub hoax"; these things
acquire a life of their own.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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