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Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: Dan Strychalski
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00
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Paul Guertin (p...@sff.net) posted --

> Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.twx> wrote:
>
>> Paul Guertin (p...@sff.et -- et?!?) posted:
>
> It's the TLD for flying saucers and other extra-terrestrial craft.
> I've been abducted. Either that, or I made a typo in my signature.

:-). No prob. I thought it might be an anti-spam mechanism.

>> Y'know, we did Chinese with an expansion card on the Apple II
>
> That's interesting. I didn't know such a thing existed. What was
> the card connected to? Did it use the standard hi-res mode?

It went in one of the expansion slots. I'm pretty sure it used the
standard hi-res mode and didn't require any special connections. It may
have been available only in Taiwan. I got one for a friend and used it
only briefly.

Dan Strychalski               dski at cameonet, cameo, com, tw (no _x_)
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From: Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.twx>
Subject: Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
Date: 1999/01/25
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