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On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:29:19 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:


>I started programming on 029 keypunches and ASR-33 teletypes.  If you asked me to
>type most of the punctuation we take for granted today (not to mention lower case
>letters), I would have looked at you as if you had asked me to type something in greek.
>
	Ignoring case, an APL terminal might have sufficed for the last...
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