Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Fri Nov 23 21:54:06 2001

At 01:44 PM 11/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> I swear, from some of the things you folks say, it
>> seems like most of you live in some third world country.
>
>Oh, God, I feel another song coming on...
>
>But instead, yeah, Louisville KY metro area. Third World.
>Ten years ago, in a Wendy's, this guy comes in looking
>enough like Li'l Abner (plaid shirt, bluejeans w/rolled-
>up cuffs and bare feet) that I had to check to make sure
>that a Dogpatch musical wasn't playing... it wasn't, this
>guy had never heard that you can't enter a restaurant with
>bare feet.
>A major local issue is the destruction of roads by steel-
>wheeled tractors. They're not just for Amish, you know.
>
>And the cable company will be the only provider of "the
>last mile" to my subdivision for at least the next 5 years.
>I'm 19473 feet away from my CO, so unless a new technology
>gets deployed, I'll be on 56k dialup for the forseeable
>future. That ain't smoke signals or talking drums, but it
>ain't really high tech anymore, either.

Hah. In Ithaca, upstate NY, there is a sudden change of
connectivity as soon as you cross RT 13 and enter the township
of Lansing. 70 meters is the difference between roadrunner
cable access and rural (max 28kbps) phone lines.

carlos.



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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Fri Nov 23 2001 - 21:54:06 GMT