Computer Market Phases

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu Sep 28 16:26:43 2000

At 05:14 PM 9/28/00 -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>But money that requires a working network link in order to be
>used will never be acceptable to me. It's one thing to have to
>wait a few minutes until they can make a connection (i.e. to get
>a dial tone as I mentioned above); it's another to have to come
>back the next day to make a purchase that's needed right _now_.

Here in southern Wisconsin, we recently had an outage where
(I think) a backhoe operator *stretched* a fiber cable, resulting
in an unusually difficult-to-patch series of breaks. Everything
was down in several counties for a long while: net, long-distance
between counties, city-to-city, ATMs, cellular. The local
bank would've given me cash if I'd known my account number
when I walked in, but my ATM card wasn't sufficient - an example
of how one number is better than another, I guess. :-)

- John
Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 16:26:43 BST