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has written a special program and is willing to make it available to others can 
send information similar to that in the list above to MUDPIE, Division of Reptiles 
and Amphibians, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. 20560, and we 
will send the word out to others. 
WHY MUDPIE? 
MUDPIE represents an attempt to keep everyone up to date on the development 
of time-shared computing in museums and universities engaged in systematic research. 
Several individuals receiving this first copy had written asking the same questions, 
and this is a quick way of answering them. There was a tremendous temptation to 
set it up so that it could be received only through the teletype and computer-- 
but that proved to be a little too advanced for the present'. 
Washington, D. C. 
September 13, 1967 
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