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From: dave@celerity.UUCP (Dave Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Banking
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Date: 12 May 89 03:55:21 GMT
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In article <2329.246511C8@isishq.FIDONET.ORG> Doug.Thompson@p101.f162.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson) writes:
> 
>"Away from the terminal". When am I away from the terminal? At the same 
>points when I'm away from any paper. In the car, walking down the street, 
>at the beach. Otherwise my portable with its built-in 19200 BAUD modem 
>is with me, and it's a whole lot lighter than the same 44Megabytes of data 
>would be on paper.
> 

It may be lighter, but is it cheaper?  I have no qualms about losing a 
newspaper or a paperback, even a hardcover is bearable, but losing a portable 
PC (or spilling a beer in it :-) would be as bad as having my entire library 
go up in smoke.  It has to be portable and _cheap_ to replace paper.

David L. Smith
FPS Computing, San Diego
ucsd!celerity!dave
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