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I really dont know, I think it was a moral issue. When the paper was made by a computer, it was like cheating. I would have been cheap and easy to hire a professional typist to make a copy, but it would have been so lame, that I refused to do it.

Few years later those same professors got their own computer terminals and then they demanded personal computer operators. Masters of Academia do not dirty their hands on keyboards.




Someone needs to introduce them to Donald Knuth.




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