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>
> And it will stop global warming and revive the dodo bird. Can you give an
> example of an instance in history when a large scale problem's technical
> solution was switched from a simple one to a complex one, and things got
> better ? Especially when the technology was very new ?


Well, yes.  Anyone remember the little booklets that they used to look up
your credit card number in?   In 1983, Verifone started rolling out 4 MHz
Z-80 systems with a modem, card reader, display, and keyboard (for damaged
magstripes and user entry)   This allowed much faster update of hot card
lists, significantly lower fraud losses, and no more manually processing
paper credit card receipts.



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