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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Computing Across America
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:46:15 GMT
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- casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
- >Leonard, unfortunately you didn't see the program with Steve Roberts. He
- >stated *repeatedly* that he's on the Internet and he also mentioned that
- >he has an account and frequently uploads his writing to GEnie. You simply
- >don't know what you're talking about.
-
- In fact, we're his San Diego connection - he uses our satellite
- communications system as his Internet connection. That little white
- dome at the back of the bike (if they showed the bike) contains our
- little satellite dish. We hooked him up about a year or two, I
- believe. He can get messages from anywhere, and with the recent
- addition to America Online of an internet Gateway, there as well.
- Compuserve has had one for a long time, and plenty of other places.
- MCI mail, sprint mail, BIX, heck, you name it, except prodigy, and
- that's not a huge loss.
-
- It's slick as hell. Wherever he is in the US (or much of Europe, for
- that matter, but it's hard to bicycle across the ocean), he can just
- turn on the satellite link and he's hooked up, even if he's miles from
- a telephone line.
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