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How one techie ended up paying the tab on an Apple Macintosh Plus

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Two spaces after a full stop was standard practice in the days of typewriters and monospaced fonts. Even now, if one creates a document in Courier font. Which one might do if sending out paper copies which later will be OCRed. Courier comes through OCR fairly reliably.

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