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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
- Message-ID: <7222@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:54:54 GMT
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- In article <BxzJot.L4G@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >Are you still using stone tools in your cave? There's now software for
- >personal computers that not only maintains a check register but also will
- >dial up a service in Columbus, Ohio, and transmit information on about all
- >the checks you've just written. The service then prints up the checks,
- >stuffs them into metered envelopes, mails them off, and places a draft on
- >your checking account. You can have the service schedule the payments for
- >future dates.
-
- Sounds nifty. However, I'm operating at a ridiculously low income level,
- and the service you describe would probably cost more than I have in my
- checking account in the first place. My pressure-sensitive checks may
- be 'obsolete' (by what standard?) and my own personal computer may be
- at about the stone-tool level, but the whole system works for me.
-
- --Diamond
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- diamond@acpub.duke.edu | The soul may choose its own society and shut
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | the door, but the body gets thrown into bed
- | with the damnedest people. --Peter Beagle
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