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   Scott Dorsey to Bill Graham   
   Re: dBFS   
   26 Nov 10 09:46:39   
   
   XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Bill Graham  wrote:   
   >   
   >If we didn't have the computers, we wouldn't have the telephone service. I   
   >read way back in the 80's that if it weren't for the digit dialing system,   
   >every woman in the US between the ages of 18 and 80 would have to work for   
   >the telephone company.   
      
   I suppose you could call a #5 crossbar a "computer" even though it's not   
   a von neumann machine....   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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