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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: LocalTalk over electrical wiring
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Date: 7 Dec 90 23:18:28 GMT
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From article <1990Dec7.195714.29990@agate.berkeley.edu>, by bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG):
> In article <70023@bu.edu.bu.edu> odell@buitc.bu.edu (Jim O'Dell) writes:
>>I seem to remember a company that offered a box that plugged into
>>a wall socket and into the LocalTalk port on the back of a Mac.
>>
>>The goal was to use the electrical wiring of a buildling to carry
>>localtalk signals. 
>>
> 
> Hmmmm.... Sounds like Rosebud.
> 
> Which was one of the better hoaxes in the world of Macaphilia.

It may not be so unlikely a product to appear in the future, though.
There's a company with a name something like GE-Marconi that markets
a device for RS-232 over electrical wiring.  You need a pair of 'em,
and they communicate with each other.  I have the address around here
if anybody wants it.

Perhaps this will develop someday into LocalTalk over electrical wiring...

--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu

       "If you're not a docter, you're just pants" -- Ian D., age 3 1/2