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- Path: sparky!uunet!utoday!jaflrn!mertwig!xyzzy
- From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Phone number delete (was: You know you've been hacking too long.
- Message-ID: <DBNNuB4w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 15:14:48 EST
- References: <johnv.03mb@acix.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group
- Lines: 36
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- johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
-
- > RICHARD@ttt.kth.se wrote:
- > > In article <1992Nov12.210731.15566@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus
- > > > It should of course be possible to make telephones that store the number
- > > > being dialled in an internal memory, and don't actually dial it until
- > > > you press a special "dial" key. In that case, it would be possible even
- > >
- > > Oh, an "Enter" key!
- > >
- > > I can already see the announcement: "The latest in phones! With incorporate
- > > IBM-PC compatible computer and WordStar for editing the number!"
- >
- > Too late...
- >
- > Telecom Australia (The local phone company) was selling these horrrible
- > things called OPD's (the "OPD" stood for One Per Desk). It was a
- > combined phone & computer using Sinclair micro floppies based on the
- > Sinclair QL I think.
- >
- > They started off at some some fantastic price in the 1000s of Aussie
- > dollars.
- >
- > Nowdays you're unlucky if you can find one.
- >
- > I believe they were the equivalent of the Ford Edsel in terms of runaway
- > sales success :-)
-
- Now theres that Navagator thing. Phone, fax, modem, touch screen, it
- would have been nice if it werent for the XT sitting under it all.
-
- -- "Xyzzy T. Plugh" mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
- Amateur radio callsign pending
- Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old networks wizard.
-
- "Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
-