At 01:33 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, Gary Fisher wrote:
>I think 1083 may even have predated the Xerox monks, whose first job was
>driving out the printer's demons.

Indeed, in those distant days they were but a small outlaw band known among 
the terrified populace as The Rogues. It was only later when their interest 
in copying technology, alleged by the jealous rivals to be linked with the 
introduction of paper currency, brought their reforming to the famous 
monastic order.



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>From: "Duane Maxwell" <dmaxwell at san.rr.com>
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>
> > > If it was 1083, wouldn't that make it 920 years old?
> > >
> > > And talk about your *portable* image!  It must've run on the Gutenberg
> > > Printing Press originally. :)
> > >
> >
> > Back then they used monks - you'd tell them what to do, and they'd go
> > do it.
> >
> > They were particularly excited about being told to copy themselves.
> >
> >

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