Date:  Sunday, 8 January 1984 17:42 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  Miscellaneous Digest V3 #3
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Miscellaneous Digest                              Volume 3 : Issue 3

Today's topics:
                    technological breakthrough
                    cancer cure
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Date:  Sunday, 8 January 1984 17:25 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  from Instruments and Control Systems, March 1972

   The current information revolution has emphasized the importance of
low-cost easy-to-use memories for recording, computing, and data
handling.  The PAPER (Passive Accumulative Permanent/Erasable Raster)
and PENCIL (Plotter/Encoder/Notator for Ciphers, Icons, and Letters)
system meets these requirements, and provides a flexible format from
which information is retrieved by optical character recognition.
   Paper is a modular storage medium, implemented in fibrous sheets
typically 0.125 mm thick.  Contents are nonvolatile and readout is
nondestructive.
   The memory module is the PAGE (Planar Addressible Graphics Element),
which may be obtained in an unstructured configuration or with ruled
columns or rows.  The rules facilitate orderly information transfers.
The standard page measures 21.59 by 27.94 cm, although reams of other
sizes are in common use.  Bulk storage is accomplished with multiple
pages, arranged in a stack and bonded along one edge to form a BOOK
(Bound Organization Of Knowledge).
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Date:  Sunday, 8 January 1984 17:26 mst
From:  James J. Lippard <Lippard>
Subject:  from the Journal of Irreproducible Results, Volume 28 Number
          3/1983

DAVIS -- The best way to beat the risk of getting cancer is to die young
and breathe as little as possible, a scientist reports.
  "If we were immortal, we would all die of cancer," Dr.  Roy Albert of
New York Medical Center told California air pollution officials.
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