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This month's selections contain:
 
Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
Beethoven's Fifth in MIDI Format
A Motion Picture of the Lunar Landing
[comments on the viability of these formats are welcome]
 
 
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Mar 1994 Big Dummy's Guide To The Internet, by EFF         [bigd10xx.xxx] 118C
Mar 1994 Beethoven't Fifth Symphony [opus 67 in c-minor    [lvb5s10x.zip] 117C
Mar 1994 Motion Pictures of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing    [landxxxx.zip] 116
Mar 1994 United States Census Figures Back To 1630         [uscen10b.xxx] 115
Mar 1994 Tenniel Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland/GIF [algif10x.zip] 114
Mar 1994 The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett     [gardn10x.xxx] 113
Mar 1994 Violists, by Richard McGowan                      [viols10x.xxx] 112C
 
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