>--- dhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We were on a party line in the 80's. Can you
>> imagine how that would
>> have affected an Internet connection.
>
>Its actually illegal to use a modem, FAX or similar
>device on a party line. The last party line in
>Idaho was done away with several years ago, early
>90's at least. It was cheaper to run all new wire
>and install a computerized switch for about 12 phones
>than it was to pay one human operator. :)
>
>Later at the same town of Atlanta, their old wooden
>dam was leaking bad. It had filled up with so much
>silt over 100+ years that the water was only about
>2 feet deep behind it. So what does the Army Corps
>of Engineers do? They pour a heavy concrete cap
>on top of the crumbling thing. About a week later
>*FWOOSH*! No more dam, no more bridge. Then the
>"environazis" tried to block the building of a new
>dam and generator but they were told to go @#%#
>themselves. Its all privately owned land there
>in spite of the nutters attempts to eliminate
>Atlanta. :) The second time around the ACoE built
>a completely new concrete dam like they should've
>done to start with. At least the residents were
>prepared to live without electricity and phones
>while the new dam was under construction
>because the old old generator wasn't the most
>reliable thing anymore. ;)
When did this happen? Not when I was living up in Boise. That was a
different day, I had a local ISP, CyberHigway, and used a 14.4
dial-up connection on my IIcx. They even gave me a copy of MacTCP
that I needed to get up and running. That was 95 and 96. Now I'm
using my phone company's DSL. What a rip there! Speaking of bottom
suckers, I get my phone service provide by a bunch of W. contributing
blood suckers that never heard of customer support. At least I don't
need the PPPoE client provided by them now that I use the PPPoE
client provided by Roaring Penguin on my NetBSD router.
--
Randy
OS X - UNIX for the rest of us
NetBSD - I got it up and running!
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