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Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:42:10 GMT, "Richard Franks"
<spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote:
> Semaphore flags would have been a faster means of communication earlier this
> afternoon! :)
Don't you just love the semaphore system? It was ahead of it's time..
20 years before the invention of the telegraph, they set up entire
lines of semaphore stations. I've seen a minor one in France, part of
the Paris-Lyon line. Tres cool.
I'd just like to mention: Pavane series, by (IIRC) Keith Roberts.
Read it, if you can ever find it. (originally published in the UK as a
series of 5 shorts in an SF mag, which is where I read it decades
after the mag was published)
Quick search on Google (God, I love them!) reveals that my memory
isn't failing yet:
http://www.silcom.com/~manatee/roberts_pavane.html
Jasper
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