RE: Grabbing wrong spool file

Hello Duane,

You wrote:
>Actually, I believe that the origination is even older than that.  IIRC,
>shortly after the Telegraph was put into operation across the country, it
>was decided that a record of what was received would be nice, and could be
>checked later for accuracy of translation and also for legal purposes.  A
>device was invented that would transcribe the dots and dashes of Morse code
>onto a paper tape and that tape was then taken up on a receiving 'spool' .
>These 'spooled' messages would then be stored in case they needed to be
>reviewed later.

That would not surprise me at all. The IT industry has a way of reusing old 
concepts (or inventing new words for old concepts: out sourcing, network 
station, etc.).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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