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Subject: Re: Apple's FCC request
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From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Date: 10 Apr 91 21:13:07
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In article <CNH5730.91Apr9205743@maraba.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes:
>In article <79.next.net@pro-angmar> awillis@pro-angmar.UUCP (Albert Willis) writes:
>   To all Users of Personal Computers:
>
>  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.
>
>   !!!__APRIL FOOLS__!!! 9 days late, for sure!!! Be the first on your
>   block to write a letter to the chairman of the FCC telling him you're
>   a ding-bat.

:-).  Actually, this is/was quite true - Apple's been trying for that
for months now, I believe.  Hopefully, if they succeed they don't then
screw things up (I'd like to have a portable which could talk to my
NeXT to download stuff via radio link, rather than having to screw
around with cables and the like . . .)

Later,
--
scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	GAC Undergrad
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