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From: ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff)
Subject: Re: BASIS Feedback
Message-ID: <28317B8C.10733@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
References: <2769.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 15 May 91 18:18:52 GMT

In article <2769.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
>Category 10,  Topic 35
>Message 56        Tue May 14, 1991
>D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 20:22 EDT
> 
>TO:  X3J14-watchers
>
>FROM:  Elizabeth D. Rather, Chair
>
[...]>
>I confess I'm utterly baffled by someone's comment that he managed to convert
>and print it in "only" 5 hrs!  Is your time worth so little ($3/hr in this
>case, not counting 200 sheets of paper), or are you so starved for
>entertainment, that you'd do this in preference to simply sending a check for
>$15 (to the Forth Vendors Group, 111 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 300, Manhattan
>Beach, CA 90266)?
>-----
The computer is paid for, the power needed was less than 1kW, the paper
cost about $3.00, my time was nil (the computer needs no sleep) as I
printed over night!

Nicholas Solntseff
ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca

