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From: bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 4 Nov 88 03:38:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)

I agree with Vincent's apprehensions.

What would probably be revolutionary would be an inexpensive home
computer who's forte is setting up home-brew usenet/e-mail links
between households. Something like an Atari/ST or PC/Klone with a
2400b modem and a 100MB disk with a "just pick a site name and a
neighbor" software set-up. It doesn't have to be fast. It could
probably be done for around $2000 list or less. Centralized service
machines could then be built around this. I suppose FIDOnet was an
attempt at that, perhaps someone from that culture could comment on
its current status? The important distinction from services like
CompuServe is that a significant amount of the computing would go on
in the households.

What do other people think would be revolutionary in a personal
computer?

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||