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>From: "Dente, Ed" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'"     <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #7176.4 IALLT Tech Museum (!)
>Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:43:36 -0400

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 > Oh, technofun! The IBM Selectric was a 
> wondrous invention. I wrote short stories on it which had no 
> meaning, no logic, but the sheer pleasure of listening to 
> that ball strike paper and roller was better than eating 
> chocolote bars! 

How long did it take computing to equal the ease of working with non-Roman
fonts that the Selectrics had? Years!
Want to use a Cyrillic font? Slip out the English ball, slip on the Cyrillic
one! Didn't take three CALICO and IALLT workshops to master that. (Well,
that's what it took me, anyway.)
We still have our Cyrillic ball. Now, let's see if I can jam it into my HP
LaserJet...
Ed
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Edmund N. Dente
Director, Language Media Center    Ph: 617-627-3036
Tufts University                   [log in to unmask]
Medford, MA 02155            http://ase.tufts.edu/lmc

"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
           -The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
            T.S. Eliot