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Old-fashioned" is a
science fiction short story by
Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of Kim Armstrong, editor of
Bell Telephone Magazine, with the stipulation that it be 3,000 words and center on a problem in communications. The author claimed that he had thought up a plotline before lunch while the editor was over. The story was duly written and published in February 1976. It was illustrated by
Gerald McConnell [1]in comic book style.