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From: mbutts@mentor.com (Mike Butts)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cellular Phones of the Future
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.174932.6550@mentor.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 17:49:32 GMT
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>Can you imagine how annoying it would be to have a ringer (or equivalent) that
>you could not shut off, a busy tone that somehow locked on, a canned message
>saying to you over and over again "Please hang up and try your call again ..."
>?  And what if you couldn't pull
>the plug?  Could a problem at a CG/CO give you the equivalent of a
>wopping headache and/or earache?
>Run, don't walk to the nearest exit!
>
>
Run down to your better neighborhood video store and rent "The President's 
Analyst", from about 1968.  Wonderful hack on the spy movies of the time,
with James Coburn.  It turns out CIA, KGB, and everybody else ends up chasing
"TPC", which has a nefarious plan to require everyone to get a Cerebral
Communicator implant.  The big scene in the Phone Company master control center
is perfect.
-- 
Michael Butts, Research Engineer          KC7IT          503-626-1302(fax:1282)
Mentor Graphics Corporation, 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton, Oregon   97005
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