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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
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Subject: Re: S.C.A.
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Date: 12 Oct 90 19:41:58 GMT
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 DK> me was the reading service in san francisco used to spend a 

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DK> couple of hours a day reading the stock market reports; i must 
 DK> say that with all my millions, i couldn't live without it!!  

Dan,
    A while back we discussed the service offered by many tv cable
dompanies to their computer owning subscribers.  Basically, at least
here in Pittsburgh, it involves a one time cost of $100 that gets you
something like a modem, that when attached to a comm port on the PC and
to the cable, will allow you to access many, many items, such as
newspapers, via the program they likewise supply.
    Although he doesn't call the board any more, we do have a blink in
our area that uses this service with speech, and trust me, if he can do
it, it must not be very difficult!  As I recall, you can select those
items you want to read, or even capture them to disk for later, and
since there is no additional charge beyond the regular cable fees and
the initial 100 bucks, it sure sounds like a good deal to me!
    Mark Senk, my good buddy and computer science major at Pitt who is
so busy with his Assembly language class he can't find the time to call
the board either, just ordered the service, so I'll let you know how it
goes if nobody else does in the meantime.  Heck, if it really is as nice
as I imagine it, maybe I'll even part with a portion of my millions to
get the service!
                                        Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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