Lippard.Multics 1985-05-08 20:47:59 mst Wed
Subject:  feeling misunderstood? :-)
Date: Wed 8 May 85 13:20:49-PDT
From: Michael Kenniston <MSK@SU-SUSHI.ARPA>
To: su-bboards@SU-SUSHI.ARPA
ReSent-Date: Wed 8 May 85 20:32:16-PDT
ReSent-From: Geoff Goodfellow <G.GEOFF@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
ReSent-To: info-cobol@MIT-MC.ARPA

The following definition appeared in a recent issue of a non-computer
magazine, as part of an article "explaining" computers:

          What goes into the computer as input is called "data,"
          and what comes out, after processing, is called "information."