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From: Doug.Thompson@p101.f162.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Newspapers
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Date: 7 May 89 21:20:46 GMT
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 > From: harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper)
 >
 > Are we talking about news over the 'phone, or having the newspaper
 > deliverer
 > chuck us a ROM thro' the letterbox?  Until 'phone line speeds are
 > comparable
 > to ethernet, it's just not going to be practical, is it?  The average,
 
Phone speeds are comparable to ethernet,with 38 Kbaud transmission of text 
being possible over voice grade lines today, 19200 BAUD being common. How do 
you think all this news ends up on your computer for you to read? All of it 
(here anyway) comes in over the 19.2 Kbaud modems at night 
 
 > 20
 > page full size (ie, not tabloid - does it have a name?) newspaper must
 
it's called "broadsheet"
 
 > require several magabytes, including pictures, and ROMs ain't that cheap
 > either, so what *are* we talking about here???
 >
 
Well, if you exclude pictures a 20 page tabloid's contents will easily fit
on a 360Kb floppy, including add content. Pictures are something of an 
imponderable in terms of data volume. A 19.2 Kbaud modem can move nearly 
200Kb of raw text per minute, and such modems cost in the neighbourhood of 
US$1,000.
 
So with "off-the-shelf" technology today we can move the data of a 20 page 
broadsheet newspaper over the modem in three or four minutes. 
 
 
 > As for the reading medium, I think it's inevitable that *someone* will
 > come
 > up with some hires floppy LCD-like display that's fun to hold &c. &c.
 > &c....
 
Agreed!
 
=Doug
 


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