Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!mrsvr.UUCP!saturn.med.ge.com!shaw From: shaw@saturn.med.ge.com (Tom Shaw ct58 5084) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Modems badly needed in the U.S.S.R Message-ID: <3385@mrsvr.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 91 19:19:44 GMT References: <1111100014@cdp> <1111100016@cdp> <229@platypus.uofs.edu> Sender: news@mrsvr.UUCP Reply-To: shaw@saturn.UUCP (Tom Shaw ct58 5084) Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 41 In article <229@platypus.uofs.edu> bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: >In article <1111100016@cdp>, dcaulkins@cdp.UUCP writes: >> >> Modems are indeed in short supply in the USSR. Lack of them has >> slowed networking in the USSR. >> > >I personally would like to see networking in this country expanded to >include High Schools and Elementary Schools before we start sending >equipment and aid to other countries (including the Soviet Union.) > >We have too many Computer Illiterate people here to even consider helping >the rest of the world. What ever happened to the proverb "Charity begins >at home." > > > >-- > > Bill Gunshannon | If this statement wasn't here, > bill@platypus.uofs.edu | This space would be left intentionally blank I'd like to see some more networking too, but I heartly endorse anyone who wants to network their own country. What I'd really like to see is the reference section of the Library of Congress on-line with "realtime" access or a fast as possible. My 300 soles or what ever the exchange rate is these days. Tom -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas A. Shaw | Roman rule: G.E. Medical Systems | The one who says it cannot be done 16800 West Ryerson Rd NB-920 | should never interrupt the one who New Berlin, WI 53151 | is doing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: {uunet!crdgw1|sun!sunbird}!gemed!shaw internet: shawta@gemed.ge.com internet: shawta@comet.med.ge.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------