Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: elg@killer.dallas.tx.us (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pacific Bell plans access to computers Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 89 16:08:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 194, message 6 of 9 In article , ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) says: > PacBell's California Online -- which will be available to anybody with a > personal computer, telephone and calling card -- will be among the first in > the nation to use a graphic-based system that simplifies procedures so only > a rudimentary familiarity with computers is needed. Hmmm. I wonder if PacBell will do what SW Bell did when they signed a contract with some company for introducing a teletext service using modified MiniTel equipment. It's interesting that in both Texas and Oklahoma, they subsequently re-classified all "free" public access BBS's as "businesses" (though it is being fought in the PUC of both states). And a telephone installer here noted that South Central Bell has ordered them to report any computer equipment they see while installing new lines... signs of future BBS pogroms? And some people want to deregulate the "Baby Bells" even further? Sheesh. -- Eric Lee Green P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg (318)989-9849 "I have seen or heard 'designer of the 68000' attached to so many names that I can only guess that the 68000 was produced by Cecil B. DeMille." -- Bcase