Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises

[dbryant@netcom.com (David K. Bryant)]

ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk (A.R. Duell) writes:

>I can _trivially_ prove that an unmodifed Apple CRT monitor cannot read 
>any information off a card held against it. 

I wouldn't bet any meals with an American ex-patriot on that one.
Rumor has it that Wozniak had managed to get an Apple ][ to send
rudimentary fax documents.  You would hold the original up against
the screen and the scanning program would move the block cursor
across the page.  The downfall was that the resolution wasn't
very good and it took a long time to complete.