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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!grissom.larc.nasa.gov!kludge
  2. From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.mag
  4. Subject: Re: fanzine history
  5. Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:09:41 GMT
  6. Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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  12.  
  13. In article <1k46k5INNht8@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:
  14. >Apparently there were little hand-operated printing presses
  15. >marketed in the 1880s; people bought them, began printing
  16. >personal thoughts and news, and started collating them for
  17. >exchange.
  18.  
  19. True enough, but this really was an outgrowth of the broadsides of the 
  20. eighteenth century.
  21. --scott
  22.