In defense of NASA: was Re: Wirin' up blinkenlights

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Mon Jun 12 12:32:44 2000

> I was aware that Toshiba was building facsimile machines in 1928
> in Japan, but I didn't know the ability to send an image to a remote
> location predated the deployment of electricity.
>
> -dq

You can't possibly be serious. Electricity was deployed in the late 1890s
and by 1928 fairly widely.

Allison
Received on Mon Jun 12 2000 - 12:32:44 BST