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From: mj@husky.uucp (Mark A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Bat computer and LFID's
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:11:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:11:31 1985
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> From dcw Wed Aug 14 13:21:13 1985
> To: mj
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I know how much you like acronyms, so I thought I'd forward this
> article I found on net.games.trivia.  Do you know if we have any
> LIFD's in Dept. 646??
> 
> Don Webster,  (article follows):
> 
> > When are they going to make a computer like the Bat-Computer?
> 
> Good question. One of my favorite scenes on Batman was when the
> Bat Computer analyzed a bowl of alphabet soup. I've always wanted
> to have a peripheral like that -- a Liquid Food Input Device (LFID).
> 
> -- Chan Benson
> {ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!chan
> Hewlett-Packard Company
> Fort Collins, CO
> (303) 226-3800 x3892
> 
> As usual, HP has nothing to do with what I say here. They may or may not be
> working on a LFID.
> 
> 
> 

	I can think of a few people around here who will probably be
	exclusive LFID's before very few years have passed.  What I want
	to see is the ECR peripheral (Edible Character Recognition).
	I think, though, that the alphabet soup machine should be called:

	Lexographic	
	Unconventional
	Noodle
	Character
	Handler,

	and, of course, CRAY would release a much larger unit called:

	Supercooled
	User-friendly
	Pasta
	Processing
	Electronic
	Reader.

	Of course, the final result would be:

	Character
	Recognition by
	Automatic
	Processing,

	which is more than a little disgusting.

						-Mark