From: abc@def.ghi   
      
   In article ,   
    "R Flowers"  wrote:   
      
   > The journalists you've heard about were filing stories from the field, over   
   > the built-in 300 baud modem (which was a big deal, I gather, back in the   
   > day). I'm willing to bet these stories were rather short, and not the   
   > lengthy magazine-type articles.   
      
   In 1984 a built-in modem was absolutely a Big Deal!   
      
   Also, keep in mind that these are plain text files.   No Word-like   
   formating to use up space in the file.   Just text.   
      
   Mike   
      
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