A wealth of misinformation

[Simon Fryer]

G'Day,

On 03/07/07, Simon Fryer <fryers at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> On 03/07/07, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170127828046
> >
> > After reading this, I wondered if the seller had any idea at all
> > of what he actually had.

[...]

> There are a surprisingly large number of links on that page to
> www.columbia.edu, and I don't see a single reference to the source.
> Plagiarism I guess.

Yes, I know it is bad form to reply to my own emails. Source for most
of the item description is at:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/tabulator.html
An interesting site and I am going to have to have a poke around when
I get home.

Simon

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philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is
the utility of the final product."
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