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Date: Sat, 18 May 91 12:07 GMT
From: "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Cheap Cellular Phones
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 ...It seems William Shakespeare knew more about computers than historians
have yet discovered:

"Life is a tale,
 Told by an idiot..."

(a medieval term for a computer)

"Full of sound..."

(monotone beeps)

"And fury."

(the frustration you feel when a computer does what you tell it to, not
what you WANT it to do!)

 ...this gives pause when you think that Julius Ceasar had the raw
materials for a cellular phone, but lacked only the manufacturing
processes for sand (silicon).  What would the Roman Empire have been
like if Caesar had a cellular phone on his chariot?