[slightly OT] Think this will ever really happen?

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn....onenewsnow.co
m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>

<http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>

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In article <michelle-(E-Mail Removed)>,
Michelle Steiner <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn....onenewsnow.co
> m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>

Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.

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In article <tom_stiller-(E-Mail Removed)>,
Tom Stiller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn...//www.onenewsn
> > ow.co m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>
> >
> > <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>
>
> Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.

I was thinking more about reading newspapers on line.

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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the GOP did to America.

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:46:17 -0600, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-(E-Mail Removed)>):

> In article <tom_stiller-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Tom Stiller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn...//www.onenewsn
>>> ow.co m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>
>>>
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>
>>
>> Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.
>
> I was thinking more about reading newspapers on line.

I'm already there in that I read The NewYork Times, USA Today, The Austin
American-Statesman each day online. I quite some time ago gave up having
newspapers delivered as it was quicker and cheaper to read the online
versions.


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TaliesinSoft wrote:
>> I was thinking more about reading newspapers on line.
>
> I'm already there in that I read The NewYork Times, USA Today, The Austin
> American-Statesman each day online. I quite some time ago gave up having

And many others. Even a teeny little northern California
four-page weekly that I encountered has an online edition.

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Wes Groleau

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of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets
surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like
Heinlein or Dr. Who.
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Ha, ha, Dr. ..... Who's Chris Maeda?
-- Wes Groleau

In article <tph-2FA5A7.15315031012009@localhost>,
Tom Harrington <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> In article <michelle-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Michelle Steiner <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > In article <tom_stiller-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> > Tom Stiller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> > > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn...//www.onenewsn
> > > > ow.co m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>
> > > >
> > > > <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>
> > >
> > > Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.
>
> Looks like about 300 baud, from the way the text appears on screen.
>
> > I was thinking more about reading newspapers on line.
>
> Given the dismal state of the industry I think it's likely to be the
> only option before long.

What "industry" are you talking about?

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In article <(E-Mail Removed) ET>,
TaliesinSoft <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> >>> <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>
> >>
> >> Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.
> >
> > I was thinking more about reading newspapers on line.
>
> I'm already there in that I read The NewYork Times, USA Today, The
> Austin American-Statesman each day online. I quite some time ago gave
> up having newspapers delivered as it was quicker and cheaper to read
> the online versions.

I keep forgetting that irony and sarcasm don't come across very well in
this medium. *sigh*

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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the GOP did to America.

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:31:50 -0700, Tom Harrington wrote:

> In article <michelle-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Michelle Steiner <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> In article <tom_stiller-(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> Tom Stiller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn...//www.onenewsn
>>> > ow.co m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>
>>> >
>>> > <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>
>>>
>>> Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.
>
> Looks like about 300 baud, from the way the text appears on screen.
>
>> I was thinking more about reading newspapers on line.
>
> Given the dismal state of the industry I think it's likely to be the
> only option before long.

1. Re the old technologies: the video was labeled 1981. I guess the real
question is: Is this another one of those things that is perpetually just 5
years away? Like nuclear fusion power, always just 10 years off.

2. Just a month ago, with no prior warning (AFAIK), PC Magazine gave me the
options of going digital, subscribing to another paper magazine, or getting
a refund of my remaining subscription. I had just renewed a few weeks
before :-(

BTW, I decided to try the on-line continuation...Evidence of my
doltishness, I guess :-)

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:44:14 -0600, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-(E-Mail Removed)>):

> I keep forgetting that irony and sarcasm don't come across very well in
> this medium. *sigh*

And shame on me for not catching the irony and sarcasm until I made my
posting -- *sigh* in return. :-(


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In article <tph-2FA5A7.15315031012009@localhost>,
Tom Harrington <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> In article <michelle-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Michelle Steiner <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > In article <tom_stiller-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> > Tom Stiller <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> > > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn...//www.onenewsn
> > > > ow.co m/Blog/Default.aspx?id=404616>
> > > >
> > > > <http://tinyurl.com/bak2dc>
> > >
> > > Dial up modem with an acoustic coupler? I don't think so.
>
> Looks like about 300 baud, from the way the text appears on screen.

That was the speed to read back in the days of the C= Vic-20, TRS-80
Models 1&2, the C=8296, and was that a CoCo I saw in a few shots? Pity,
no Apple ][ family, Atari 400/800 or Osbornes.

And to someone else in this thread, self dial, coupler free modems were
still a VERY expensive toy ($3000+) in 1981. The first consumer 1200's
in 1982 were still over $1000. Couplers had been 110 baud, and 300 baud
was just out and still pricey as it was.

jt