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Re: [ARSCLIST] The person responds was Thin tape decay



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Champion (FOA ANT)" <n.champion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> And perhaps if Bill Gates had done his globe-trotting at a younger age,
today's computers might better accommodate that part of the world's
population not resident in the US.
>
Well, suppose he had started work on microcomputers in Taiwan, with the
Chinese "alphabet" of 50,000 or so characters! Try to modify a 128-character
teletype system to suit THAT...

Steven C. Barr


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