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Apple Newton computers can transfer information between them without needing a wire joining them. They send infrared pulses. The two machines must be with in a meter of each other forthis to work well. You then might say Please beam me the project Polaris file. Beam is a reference to the Star Trek transporter beam. The term is gradually coming to be used forother types of electronic file transfer.

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