Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site husky.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ritcv!husky!mj From: mj@husky.uucp (Mark A. Johnson) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Bat computer and LFID's Message-ID: <190@husky.uucp> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:11:31 EDT Article-I.D.: husky.190 Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:11:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:44:53 EDT Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY Lines: 59 > 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