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Re: gEDA-user: Flame about XML (was: Some footprints I tried tocreate)



On 3/14/07, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Bob Paddock <bob.paddock@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Why would you use punched cards or paper tape?
> >
> > Because it is non-volatile to 410'F?  Find an
> > off the shelf semiconductor one that can do that.
>
> AND, not only that, but it can survive the ages mostly intact  for
> what seems like an eternity (think of the fact that we still have
> books from the 1400s in libraries in Europe!).

Are you sure the pages of those books from the 1400s were made
of wood pulp? I thought that the European papers prior to the 19th
century where made from cotton or linen.

(* jcl *)

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