The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a challenge between 93 year old
> telegraph operator transmitting morse code to an 82 year old with a
> manual typewriter, and youngsters sending a text message. The text
> message was received 18 seconds after the message was already on > paper.
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They've obviously not heard of T9 mode in text messaging. The biggest issue I have with texting is that the keypad is too damned small.