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From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Radio Time Clocks
Message-ID: <22526@prls.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 16:07:39 GMT
References: <895@osf.OSF.ORG> <3086@daisy.UUCP> <2767@csccat.UUCP> <600@lzaz.ATT.COM> <13437@ut-emx.UUCP> <1989May27.222428.4127@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <13437@ut-emx.UUCP> frank@ut-emx.UUCP (Frank Abernathy) writes:
>WHY do people want to subsidize AT&T/Sprint/MCI and (insert your favorite long-
>distance company here)?
>
>Buy the Heath Clock, $249.95 plus $49.95 for the RS-232 interface, put it
>together, string a wire an get the correct time.
>

     Over $300 just to get an accurate time ?  I'll stick with the phone.
  Prehaps you check your clock more often than I do mine, or maybe you
  just need a better clock.  When I consider how many calls I can make
  and how often I typically call, and compare this to the probable usefull
  lifetime of the Heath clock, then (at least for me), the phone is cheaper. 

Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370 (Sunnyvale,Ca); {mips|pyramid|philabs}!prls!gordon
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