Fruit-based computers (was: Plants as network medium?)

[Chris]

On 3 Sep 1998, Ian wrote:

> In article <35E704A9.5EFFDA9C at technocage.com>,
> 	"Michael J. Fair" <michael at technocage.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello all, at the risk of being flamed for crazy ideas I decided to
> > ask the following question.
> >
> >  Would it be possible to use plants as the transmission medium for
> > networks?
> 
> By a strange coincidence, there's an article on *fruit*-based
> computers on segfault.org... It's a spoof news site, so don't expect
> anything serious. The URL is;
> 
> http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?id=35ec419d-0062ed00&mode=0
> 
> -- 

You guys are completely crazy. The only form of food it is possible to
use as a computer is a cup of coffee - and then only to factorise large
numbers.

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