Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!att!occrsh!rjd From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Computer Follies Summary: Need monkeys Message-ID: <367@occrsh.ATT.COM> Date: 27 Sep 88 18:09:17 GMT References: <1962@titan.camcon.co.uk> <6672@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis) Organization: AT&T Network & Data Systems, OKC Lines: 9 In article <6672@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: :Mike Richardson's tale of the coffee-splattered drum printer that :printed ASCII hash for a long time before slowly correcting itself :leads me to wonder something: If you kept ladling coffee in at :regular intervals, and kept the printer running indefinitely, would :it eventually print out Shakespeare's entire oeuvre? Naw, you would still need an infinite number of monkeys to do the ladeling, wouldn't you?