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Re: Stegno for Kids

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Hayden)
Tue Jan 3 15:22:19 1995

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 14:10:57 -0600 (CST)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
To: Hadmut Danisch <danisch@ira.uka.de>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9501031834.AA21554@elysion.iaks.ira.uka.de>

On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> I had something like that as a toy about 20 years ago. A single pen with
> tips on both sides. One to write, the other to develop. Didn't they have it
> in America also?

There was also this thing where you would get these books and a magic 
marker, and they you would do puzzles in the book, and use the pen to 
develope the answer.

The old Infocom hint books also used a similiar setup.

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