From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy@sendai.scytale.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 19:41:22 -0800 (PST)
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: ITAR and Paper ROM
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In list.cypherpunks, stewarts@ix.netcom.com writes:

> More practically, sort of, there was the Cauzin Softstrip Reader,
> which cost about $200 and held enough data to distribute programs
> back when computers and programs were much smaller; a few PC magazines
> tried distributing programs by printing them in the back that way.
> Cute, but not cute enough to stick around very long.

Cauzin was bought by Eastman Kodak shortly after they started
advertising in the big rags (like _Byte_, which printed a test strip a
month or so before Cauzin made their big advertising push).  Cauzin was
even putting freeware programs in their ads.  At that time, Kodak was
just entering the soon-to-be-lucrative magnetic media market with their
floppy disk line.  I'd say they were bought and buried.
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