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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Date: 25 Sep 89 01:21:45 GMT
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The discussion on old 5 level machines reminds me of a story a retired
ATT repairman told me. Because there was a chance that the machine
could get sent into FIGS during the carriage return, one of the wire
services (AP, I think, but I may have them swapped) mandated the
sequence to be  on every line. The other one (UPI)
did not; they used only .  As a result, their old-time copy
editors got VERY good at reading the resulting 23.67 3;8:7 393 , and
telling you what being sent without missing a beat.


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