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From: 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple's FCC request
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.140727.29595@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:07:27 GMT
References: <689.apple.net@pro-angmar>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <689.apple.net@pro-angmar>, awillis@pro-angmar.UUCP (Albert Willis) writes:
> 
> Apple Computer recently asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to
> allocate frequencies so computer users will be able to transmit and receive
> information among personal computers (particularly portable and notebook-style
> computers), using radio (instead of cables) in a local radius of about 50
> meters indoors.  We need your help to make this possible.

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> This is an urgent request.  For maximum impact, your comment should be sent to
> arrive by the FCC's initial deadline for comments on APRIL 10.  If received
> later, they will be considered in a second round of comments, due MAY 10.
 
And don't forget to follow up with a second letter to Apple explaining the kind
of support you expect for your Apple II, what useful features you would like to
see incorporated into the next II CPU, how you think these radio transmission
technologies should fit in with the II line of computers, what kinds of
projects you find the Apple II useful for, etc.

A friendly reminder that what goes around, comes around.  :)