What is the first computer?

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu Jun 18 09:28:45 1998

At 08:24 AM 6/18/98 +0000, jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca wrote:
>
>BUT, that stupid WORD program tricked you with that file size.
>Every time you revise the doc, moved around, made corrections, large
>chunks of dupliace text got added as feature of "undo" backup which I
>considered "Bad Thing" to do so and keep growing.

No, that's a good thing, especially when someone sends you a
proposal in Word form in e-mail, and then you can read the binary
so see what they'd said in previous revisions, or in the last
time they sent this form letter to someone. :-)

- John
Received on Thu Jun 18 1998 - 09:28:45 BST

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