]PREPARE GROUP “Automata And Clockwork Persons”
Group prepared.
]DESCRIBE GROUP
Begin description:
This group represents an assemblage of the assembled: those citizens, visitors, and associates of New Babbage who are constructed of partially or mostly or entirely mechanical devices, and who also participate in aetheric communique. All are welcome to join and comment.
^Z
Description committed.
]RESUME PROCESSING
Resuming Job #2275XD4…
10 PRINT AT 10,25: “<3”
20 GOTO 10
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Here we have a short story, by none other than E. A. Poe, of a mechanically enhanced individual, entitled The Man That Was Used Up:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/used_up.html