TELECOM Digest     Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:50:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 399

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Chaos and Confusion in New Orleans (Michael Martinez)
    Katrina Reignites Global Warming Debate (Joseph B. Verringia)
    Re: Global Warming Probably the Reason for Katrina (Michael Chance)
    Telecom Update - Canada - Issue #495 (Angus Telemanagment)
    Matthew Shears Appointed ISOC'S Director of Public Policy (Peter Godwin)
    DT to Upgrade Network, Launch 3G Service (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: New Orleans Phones Are All Out, Also (Joe Morris)
    Re: Connecticut Man Sells Micrsoft Windows Source Code (Joe Morris)
    Re: Sid Ceaser and Phones in Comedy (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: dear comp.dcom.telecom readers (Tim@Backhome.org)

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From: Michael Martinez <Chi-Trib@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Chaos and Confusion in New Orleans
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:30:46 -0500


By Michael Martinez Tribune national correspondent

One body was abandoned in a wheelchair at the rear of the Convention
Center.  Another, clad in a hospital gown, was laid on the concrete
beside the wheelchair, in a designated smoking area. A group of people
hoisted a third corpse and threw it into a nearby loading dock's trash
bin.

Ron and Dottie Thomas of Melbourne, Fla., two of the thousands of
refugees lined up waiting to be rescued, watched the unceremonial
treatment Thursday of three apparent victims of Hurricane Katrina.

"This whole thing is so disgusting right now," said Ron Thomas, 65, a
New Orleans native. "These people probably just died of heat exhaustion."

Three days into Katrina's wake, New Orleans was rife with confusion,
chaos and desperation as thousands of families, elderly citizens,
mothers with infants and tourists like the Thomases wondered when, if
ever, they would be rescued from this city without power and water.

Indeed, passage out of downtown loomed like a mirage Thursday as
convoys moved easily in and out of the central business district with
only a few instances of knee-deep water.

But authorities were turning back refugees who sought to get out of
downtown on foot and traverse a suspended highway and bridge over the
Mississippi River, residents said. It seemed the oppressive summer
heat and humidity, which brought some rain Thursday, would likely
claim the lives of those who dared to walk rather than board a bus.

Authorities have focused on saving people, not retrieving the
dead. But while many survivors have been rescued from the floods, they
have often had to go without food and water.

As Thomas recounted the experience at the Ernest Morial Convention
Center, a military helicopter arrived. He and other refugees bolted
toward the swooping aircraft as it landed in the parking lot and
dropped off the first food and water Thomas has seen in days.

"This is sad, what they've done to everyone here," said Thomas, after
he fought the whirling air blasts and secured a box of military meals
ready to eat. "I don't mean to keep stressing this to you, but why
would it take three days to deliver food?"

If people don't get food soon, he said, there will be more bodies to
discard.

At least one more body was disposed of on the median in front of the
Convention Center, bringing the number of those deposited there to at
least four.

About a mile away, havoc was evident outside the downtown post office,
whose seven-story garage became a temporary shelter Thursday for 150
people seeking refuge from the rain. Moms with babies, frail elderly
people in wheelchairs, disabled children -- all watched as a steady
pulse of bus and truck convoys passed them by. 

The refugees beseeched drivers to pick them up, but the vehicles just
splashed by as they stood in knee-deep water on Loyola Avenue.

They were just two blocks from the Superdome, the collection point for
displaced individuals to be bused out of downtown, they said. Why
couldn't the buses just pick them up?

But military men in camouflage, holding rifles, ordered the people to
back away from a bus pickup point at the Superdome complex just down
the street.  When some buses arrived a day earlier, ostensibly to pick
up the women, children and the elderly outside the post office, more
agile refugees jumped on the vehicles first, and bus attendants failed
to notice, residents said.  They left behind amputees, people with
diabetes and seniors with heart conditions.

At the post office, refugees swarmed visitors, asking for help for a
sick relative in need of medicine or a child who hadn't eaten.

Among those waiting were Paula Jackson, 52, a licensed practical
nurse, and her 14-year-old daughter, who is paralyzed on one side and
requires a feeding bag. "They're emptying the dome first, and they're
leaving us to weather the elements," Jackson said.

"It's like it's at your fingertips, if you just stretch out your arm,
but you can't do it," Jackson said of the buses. "I don't picture how
they can go to the nation telling what great assistance they're giving
us. At ground level, ground zero, it's poor, poor, poor service."

Darrell Dozier, 39, a pizza deliveryman in New Orleans,  agreed. "They're
ignoring us," he said. "I want to get out of New Orleans. I just can't 
live like this."

Sadly, Jackson and Dozier could have boarded a bus if they'd known
they had only to walk around the garage to an alley between the post
office and a bus station. The two-block trek eventually leads to a
back entrance to the Superdome, where Louisiana National Guard
commanders were directing people to a long line for buses evacuating
refugees.

Carrying children, suitcases and even pet cats in cages, people stood
in long lines, evoking images of a biblical exodus as they negotiated
the filthy water to the Superdome.

Some elderly people were too frail to walk and sat under the bus
station's front awning. "I don't know how we're going to leave because
there ain't nobody going to do anything for us," said Essie Allen, 65.

As refugees climbed two flights of exterior stairs to the Superdome --
strewn with clothing and brand-new costume jewelry that apparently
became too heavy to carry -- Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas
Beron, 43, was directing refugees to the nearby New Orleans Center for
processing.

Beron admitted that the loss of telecommunications in downtown New
Orleans has led to widespread confusion about evacuation.

"It's crazy," said Beron, an attorney. "The sad thing is that there
are people all over the city who can't get here."


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From: Joseph B. Verrengia <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Katrina Reignites Global Warming Debate
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:19:09 -0500


By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer

Hurricane Katrina's fury has reignited the scientific debate over
whether global warming might be making hurricanes more ferocious.

At least one prominent study suggests that hurricanes have become
significantly stronger in the past few decades during the same period
that global average temperatures have increased. Katrina blew up in
the Gulf of Mexico to a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 175 mph
before slackening a bit Monday when it hit, swamping New Orleans and
the Mississippi coast.

Other leading scientists agree the Atlantic Basin and Gulf Coast
regions are being battered by a severe hurricane phase that could
persist for another 20 years or more. But they believe that a natural
environmental cycle is responsible rather than any human-induced
change, and they point to what they consider to be large gaps in the
global warming analysis conducted by a climatologist at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Roger Pielke Jr., who studies the social impacts of natural disasters
and climate change at the University of Colorado, said any link
between the intensity of Katrina and other recent hurricanes and
global warming is "premature." Most forecasts suggest climate change
would increase hurricane wind speeds by 5 percent or less later in
this century.

Pielke's analysis will be published later this year in the Bulletin of
the American Meteorological Society.

"There are good reasons to expect that any conclusive connection
between global warming and hurricanes or their impacts will not be
made in the near term," he said.

In August, MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel reported in the journal
Nature that major storms spinning in both the Atlantic and the Pacific
have increased in duration and intensity by about 50 percent since the
1970s.  During that period, global average temperatures have risen by
about one degree Fahrenheit along with increases in the level of
carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants from industry
smokestacks, traffic exhaust and other sources.

Hurricanes rely on huge pools of warm water at the surface of the
ocean to grow for several days. As trade winds spin the storm, it
pulls more heat from the ocean and uses it as fuel. Typically, large
storms require sea surface temperatures of at least 81 F.

Scientists say rising global atmospheric temperatures have been slowly
raising ocean temperatures, although they still vary widely from year
to year.

On Web logs, scientists and environmentalists in the United States and
Europe sparred over the possible connection.

The evidence linking global warming and hurricane intensity might be
fuzzy, but it highlights a potential issue worth examining right away,
some say.

"Maybe a connection here is yet to be clearly established, but it is
also yet to be ruled out," said Terry Richardson, a physicist at the
College of Charleston in South Carolina on CCNet, a British climate
blog.

Pielke and other researchers say Emanuel's evidence is too slim at
this point.

The past 10 years have been the most active hurricane seasons on
record, and many researchers say the trend could persist for another
20 years or more.  They believe it's a consequence of natural salinity
and temperature change in the Atlantic's deep current circulation --
elements that shift back and forth every 40-60 years.

National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield agrees. He said that
while Atlantic hurricane seasons have been active for a decade, that
isn't true around the world.

"In fact, the Asian Pacific is way down the past few years. Is that
due to global warming, a decrease in hurricanes? I haven't bought into
that one yet," he said.

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From: Michael Chance <mchance@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: Global Warming Probably the Reason for Katrina
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:09:50 GMT


In article <telecom24.395.1@telecom-digest.org>, afp@telecom-digest.org 
says:

> Brace for more Katrinas, say experts
> Tue Aug 30,10:55 AM ET

> For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique
> event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be
> pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms.

However, the real hurricane experts at NOAA are saying that global
warming has only a negliable effect on hurricane strength.  The number
and size of hurricanes in any given season is cyclical, and we just
happen to be on the upside of the current cycle.  See
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/31/173242.shtml

Besides, even if President Bush had completely implemented all of the 
Kyoto Protocols the day after his first inauguration in 2001, there 
would be zero effect on this year's hurricane season -- all of the 
possible reduction in "greenhouse gases" from the U. S. would be more 
than offset by increases from China, India, and South America -- who 
aren't subject to any of the Kyoto reductions.  Except that it would 
have completely trashed the U. S. economy in the process.

ObTelecom -- Personally, I think that the real cause of "global
warming" is the huge increase in the number of cell phone towers, with
the accompanying increase in electro-magnectic radiation heating up
the atmosphere.  Can't prove it empirically, but then none of the
other "experts" prove their theories, either.

Michael Chance


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But, if Bush _had_ signed on to Kyoto
'the day after his inauguration' -- or even if he were to do so right
now -- he would demonstrate that the entire world came ahead of just
the wishes of the United States. And again, I think all this would be
moot if in our world we had about half as many people as we have now.  PAT]

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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:07:58 -0700
Subject: Telecom Update #495, September 2, 2005
From: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca>
Reply-To: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca>


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IN THIS ISSUE: 

** Katrina Cuts Phone Service to Thousands 
** CRTC Stats Show Incumbents Still Dominate Local Service 
** Bell Creates Separate Mobility Group 
** Details Released on Policy Review Hearings 
** Telesat Anik F1R to Launch Tuesday 
** Guelph, Waterloo Utelcos Merge 
** Study Finds No Cellphone Cancer Link 
** CRTC Acts on Vancouver Access Issues 
** Cogeco Offers Phone Service to Non-Customers 
** BCE Invests in Broadband Over Home Electrical Wire 
** Nortel Adds Microsoft Call Control to CS 1000 
** 3com Intros Telecommuting Module 
** Intel, Microsoft Back RIM in Patent Case 
** Harris to Buy Leitch Technology 
** Rogers Telecom Seeks to Cut Debt 

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KATRINA CUTS PHONE SERVICE TO THOUSANDS: No exact figures are yet
available, but it appears that hundreds of thousands of homes and
businesses on the U.S. Gulf Coast lost phone service as a result of
Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding. In addition to
near-total loss of local and cellular service in New Orleans, several
major switching hubs were damaged, cutting long distance service as
far away as Florida.

CRTC STATS SHOW INCUMBENTS STILL DOMINATE LOCAL SERVICE: To assist
participants in the local forbearance proceeding (See Telecom Update
#479, 486) the CRTC has released some of the local market data that
will appear in its October report on the status of competition in
telecom. Some highlights (all figures are for the end of 2004):

** Nationally, incumbent telcos provide 96.8% of residential 
   lines and 88.4% of business lines. 

** Two-thirds of the competitive business lines are provided 
   by incumbents operating outside their home territory--e.g. 
   Bell Canada operating in B.C. and Alberta. 

** Competition is strongest in Nova Scotia, where competitors 
   provide 15% of all local lines. (The major competitor in 
   Nova Scotia is cableco EastLink.)

www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2005/pt2005-11.htm 

BELL CREATES SEPARATE MOBILITY GROUP: Bell Mobility, which has been
part of Bell's Consumer Markets Group, is now a separate organization
headed by Robert Odendaal, who reports directly to CEO Michael
Sabia. Other changes announced today include:

** Kevin Crull, who joined Bell this year after four years at 
   AT&T, is now President, Residential Services, a new 
   organization that incorporates consumer wireline, high-
   speed Internet and video services.

** Pierre Blouin, a 20-year veteran who has been Consumer 
   Markets Group President since May 2003, has decided "to 
   leave Bell Canada to pursue other career opportunities." 

** Alek Krstajic, former president of Bell Mobility, will 
   work in the Office of the CEO until "a new senior 
   executive assignment" is announced.

DETAILS RELEASED ON POLICY REVIEW HEARINGS: The Telecom Policy Review
panel (see Telecom Update #490) will hold two public consultations
this fall, to supplement two rounds of written submissions.

** A forum on broadband access will be held in Whitehorse 
   on September 9, followed by an online discussion until 
   September 16. To participate in the live webcast and/or 
   the online discussion, register at the panel's website.

www.telecomreview.ca/epic/internet/intprp-gecrt.nsf/en/rx00040e.html 

** A three-day symposium on a wider range of topics will be 
   held in Ottawa on October 24-26. Those wishing to attend 
   may request an invitation, but spaces are limited. A live 
   webcast will also be provided.

www.telecomreview.ca/epic/internet/intprp-gecrt.nsf/en/rx00041e.html 

TELESAT ANIK F1R TO LAUNCH TUESDAY: On September 8, Telesat Canada's
first European-built satellite, the Anik F1R, will be launched in
Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The new satellite will provide telecom, TV, and
global positioning services.

GUELPH, WATERLOO UTELCOS MERGE: FibreTech telecommunications, owned by
three Waterloo region hydro companies and Guelph FibreWired, owned by
Guelph Hydro have merged. The combined company, Atria Networks, owns
over 1,000 kilometers of fibre.

STUDY FINDS NO CELLPHONE CANCER LINK: The largest study to date
concludes that ten years of cellphone use produces no increased risk
of tumors in nerves near the ear. The U.K. Institute of Cancer
Research found no relationship between the risk of acoustic neuroma
and years of mobile phone use, time since first use, the number of
calls, or hours of use.

CRTC ACTS ON VANCOUVER ACCESS ISSUES: The CRTC has issued letters
regarding two municipal access disputes in the City of Vancouver:

** MTS Allstream is given permission to construct a 
   transmission line at Station Street, subject to some 
   conditions. The Commission says it will rule soon on the 
   carrier's January 2005 application for a long-term, city-
   wide access agreement (see Telecom Update #466).

www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2005/dt2005-26.htm 

** The Commission provides guidelines to Shaw and Vancouver 
   for negotiating an access agreement, recommending a 15-
   year term and the Ledcor principles. If the parties don't 
   agree by November 1, the Commission is prepared to impose 
   access rules.

www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Letters/2005/lt050901.htm 

COGECO OFFERS PHONE SERVICE TO NON-CUSTOMERS: Cogeco Cable has
extended its Digital Phone service to Windsor, Ontario and
Saint-Hyacynthe, Quebec.  In addition, phone service in Burlington,
Oakville, and Windsor will now be available to all residents in served
areas, rather than only to Cogeco's Internet customers.

BCE INVESTS IN BROADBAND OVER HOME ELECTRICAL WIRE: The Toronto Star
says that BCE Capital has invested US$5 million in Florida-based
Intellon Corp, whose technology uses a home's electrical wiring to
deliver a broadband network.

NORTEL ADDS MICROSOFT CALL CONTROL TO CS: Nortel Networks says it has
integrated Microsoft's Office Communicator and Office Live
Communication Server into Nortel's Communications Server 1000. The
resulting "converged office solution" will be in beta trials this
month, and generally available later in 2005.

** Nortel has also announced new releases of CS 1000, 
   CallPilot, and MCS 5100, as well as four new phones. 

3COM INTROS TELECOMMUTING MODULE: 3Com has introduced a SIP-compliant
IP Telecommuting module that enables IP conferencing, messaging, and
contact centre applications to be used outside corporate LANs. The
module uses technology from Sweden-based Ingate Systems.

INTEL, MICROSOFT BACK RIM IN PATENT CASE: Intel and Microsoft have
made submissions to a Washington DC appeals court, supporting Research
In Motion's appeal of patent infringement rulings.

** The Canadian government also backs RIM, arguing that the 
   U.S. court has no jurisdiction, because RIM's actions took 
   place in Canada, at RIM's network control. (See Telecom 
   Update #487)

HARRIS TO BUY LEITCH TECHNOLOGY: Florida-based Harris Corp. has
acquired Leitch Technology Corp. of Toronto for $450 million. Both
companies make digital network broadcasting systems.

ROGERS TELECOM SEEKS TO CUT DEBT: Rogers Telecom (formerly Call-Net
Enterprises) has issued a cash tender to buy back outstanding notes
worth US$222.9 million, in order to eliminate associated interest
expenses.

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From: Peter Godwin <godwin@isoc.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:13:18 +0200
Organization: Internet Society
Subject: Matthew Shears Appointed as ISOC'S Director of Public Policy


Reston, VA - 2nd September 2005 - The Internet Society (ISOC) today
announced the appointment of Matthew Shears as its Director of Public
Policy. This key appointment, which is effective immediately, will
further strengthen ISOC's role as an independent and effective
advocate for the core values of an open and accessible Internet.

In this newly-created position, Matthew will drive ISOC's policy
initiatives in support of the society's Strategic Operating
Plan. These include broad outreach activities aimed at helping
governments and policy makers design and maintain policies to ensure
that the Internet remains an open and universally accessible platform
for innovation, creativity, and economic opportunity.

Matthew has extensive experience in public policy, advocacy,
communications, business development and strategy in both the public
and private sectors.  After working as a standards and market entry
adviser at the US Mission to the EU in Brussels, he worked as AT&T's
EMEA Regional Director for Public Affairs, drove public affairs in
Europe for the Seattle-based satellite Internet start-up Teledesic,
and then moved to Cisco, where he created the EMEA Government Affairs
team.

Lynn St. Amour, ISOC's President and CEO, said, "The public policy
issues facing the Internet are now more complex and more visible than
ever before.  Matthew's experience and insight will be invaluable as
ISOC moves forward to develop new approaches to help policy makers
meet these new challenges."

###

ABOUT ISOC

The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org) is a not-for-profit
membership organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in
Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in
Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring
the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the
benefit of people throughout the world. ISOC is the organizational
home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other
Internet-related bodies who together play a critical role in ensuring
that the Internet develops in a stable and open manner. For over 13
years ISOC has run international network training programs for
developing countries and these have played a vital role in setting up
the Internet connections and networks in virtually every country
connecting to the Internet during this time.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS:

Peter Godwin
Communications Manager, Internet Society
E-mail: godwin@isoc.org
4, rue des Falaises
1205 Geneva
Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:49:47 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: DT to Upgrade Network, Launch 3G Service


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* Columnist: Wireless gaming is red hot, especially in Seattle
* Is the "digital home" just hype?
* Madonna, celebs to promote iTunes-enabled phone
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* Order Today! Newton's Telecom Dictionary -- 21st Edition
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* At long last, the Wi-Fi camera arrives
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* Analysis: What is Google up to?
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From: Joe Morris <jcmorris@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: New Orleans Phones Are All Out, Also
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:51:44 UTC
Organization: The MITRE Organization


Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.DOTcom> writes:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:16:28 GMT, Jim Burks <jbburks@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Has anybody heard from Mark Cuccia? Hopefully, he either got out of
>> town, or is keeping his head above water.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You might wish to try the Tulane
> University library, where he was employed, and ask them what they
> know, if anything. I do not know how badly, if at all, the flood
> affected the library and its book collections. Obviously, the phones
> are out, but perhaps someone with some imagination can find a way to
> reach the library staff.   PAT]

It may or may not help you, but the web site of the Times-Picayune
(the New Orleans newspaper) has a public bulletin board that's had
traffic asking and reporting about Tulane departments (among, of
course, lots of other postings).  The material isn't threaded so you
may have to scroll through literally thousands of postings hoping that
the subject lines of what you're looking for stand out.  The board for
Orleans Parish is:

http://www.nola.com/forums/townhall

According to the sources I've seen the area just beyond the far
western edge of the campus (corner of Willow and Broadway) has (or
had) a few feet of water but the area roughly bounded by Broadway,
Freret, Jefferson, and Magazine is (more or less) dry.  The library
sits just off Freret unless it's been moved in the past few years.

FWIW: reports I'm getting (both from anonymous boards like the board I
cited above, and from some contacts within the city) indicate that
Tulane (and its next-door neighbor, Loyola) were spared the
floodwaters.  There is obviously significant wind damage in the area,
but I'm getting inconsistent reports of the degree of damage on the
campus.  I no longer have any direct contacts in the Library and my
indirect contacts haven't mentioned it.


Joe Morris (awaiting confirmation that my sister's house still exists)


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Another good source of information in
and about New Orleans is at http://wwl.com  where they maintain forums
with open postings of people looking for loved ones. They were asking 
people to use the accelerated indexes according to family name, etc
but posters seemed to just be putting notices everywhere on the board.
I tried going through it, reading the various postings yesterday, but
it was tough going, not only from the disorganized way the postings
appeared (I think the postings were appearing faster than the sysadmin
caretakers could re-arrange them) and emotionally (at least for me).
WWL Radio and WWL Television have been attempting to cover this 24
hours daily, but they did have to sign off for a few hours the other
night (coming back on the air at 5:30 AM) because of maintainence
needs.  Use http://wwl.com for a direct video/audio feed 24/7 from 
their newsroom. The usual technological pitfalls (bandwidth shortage)
is apparent.  PAT]

------------------------------

From: Joe Morris <jcmorris@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Connecticut Man Sells Micrsoft Windows Source Code
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:55:04 UTC
Organization: The MITRE Organization


Julian Thomas <blackhole@jt-mj.net> writes:

> In <20050901191858.CF70A153E8@massis.lcs.mit.edu>, on 09/01/05 at
> 03:18 PM, Joe Morris typed:

>> (On the day of the New World announcement IBM
>> released four "program products".  A headline in a subsequent issue of
>> _Computerworld_ read "SURPRISE!  Software costs as much as a printer!". 
>> The reference was to one of the four program products, Generalized
>> Information System (GIS), which had a monthly charge (running forever) of
>> ~US$1200 (in 1969 dollars!), which was about the same as the monthly
>> rental fee for a 1403-N1 1100 lpm printer.

> And a festering piece of excrement that was.  The GIS Query Editor, in
> particular, was buggy with a primitive user interface to boot.
 
That's what I remember hearing.  Thankfully, the closest I ever came
to GIS was on a visit to the UKY computer center I saw the manuals
sitting on Selwyn Zerof's desk.

Joe Morris

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Sid Ceasar and Phones in Comedy
Date: 2 Sep 2005 12:17:46 -0700


Wesrock@aol.com wrote:

> Was this true in LA, which was still primarily step at this time?
> Most predominantly step cities used "110" for the Long Distance
> operator.

In the show, you couldn't see what was dialed.  He just kind spun the
dial a few times, without letting it return properly.  They didn't
want to waste air time while properly dialing a number, slows the pace
down too much.  Indeed, today on TV you'll see people just shove their
hand against a Touch Tone pad rather than properly press buttons one
at time to make a call.

Perhaps the show originated out of New York City, not Hollywood.  I
think the writers (who later were famous comedians and producers
themselves) were New Yorkers, or at least New York oriented.

> Predominantly panel type cities (including those that had some
> crossbar mixed in by this time) used "211."

A separate number for Long Distance instead of plain zero was common
in many cities.  Long Distance switchboards were differently equipped
than dial-0 boards (calugraphs*, long distance trunks, number
verification panel, etc.), although many places used one operator.

I wonder when 211-long distance was discontinued.  I don't remember it
in my phone book, even before we got DDD (we just dialed 0).  Dialing
211 got the regular operator.

*Not to be confused with "calutrons" which was a suped-up cyclotron
used to refine unranium at Oak Ridge Tenn.

------------------------------

From: Tim@Backhome.org
Subject: Re: dear comp.dcom.telecom readers
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:00:25 -0700
Organization: Cox Communications


> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: As Lisa requested, the several K of
> text which came along was deleted here. Lisa, I am also greatly
> disappointed at how internet has become in the past several years. I
> suppose it was unrealistic of me to expect it would always retain the
> same status quo as it had in the 1980's, but still ...  PAT]

Alas, you are trying to place an American value system on all of this,
which is a value system shared by main-stream America in the past, but
is mostly gone now.

Also, you have folks in other parts of the world that view Americans
as rude, arrogant, repulsive, too rich and or too consuming and thus,
long overdue for a good fleecing.

And, there are the terrorists with their hate of America.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Is it 'rude and arrogant' of me to
question "why would anyone dislike Americans?" or "why would
terrorists hate America?" or did you happen to notice maybe I am just
a bitter old man with enough losses of one kind or another under his
belt that the transition of internet/usenet from a medium by and for
the citizens of the world into a cesspool is going to be no big thing
to me either way?

After all, I watched as Citizens Band radio in the 1970's changed from
a very popular, very worthwhile 'medium for the people' to a sewer as
the spammers (of those times, in that era and that style) wrecked it
for everyone. 

I very early got in on the (then new) phenomena called 'Citizens Band
for Computer' as Compuserve stuck its neck out with its (then) new
product called 'CB Simulator'. A program producer at Compuserve
developed this new thing called 'CB Simulator' and he begged and
pleaded with H & R Block (then the owners of Compuseve) to give it a
try. They said they were not sure; it won't go over; people use
computers in their homes to read stock market reports, read the Wall
Street Journal and now and then -- but rarely in those days -- use
what was being termed 'email' to write letters, and check out our
forums. "No one is going to be interested in just chattering on line
with others. But we will try it for six months; it will fail, we will
drop it, and you will be out of a job." In about six months the 'CB
Simulator' program had grown in popularity to the point it was paying
the bills for Compuserve, and CIS/H&R Block was thrilled that this new
product offering was doing so well for them.

And many of us migrated our CB Radio forums over to computer and the
'CB Simulator' service since there were so many promises here of good
things to come; we had none of the 'usual annoyances' we had become so
accustomed to on the radio, with 'bad people' raising all kinds of
hell 24/7; turn the radio on any more and it was just solid heterodyne
from all directions; we'd raise our power, we'd go out of band; none
of it kept the 'spammers and scammers' (although those words were not
known then) away; we got followed everywhere. So, 'CB Simulator' was
our Messiah. At last, I mentioned to Bill Pfieffer, we can have our
community meetings and information- collecting and -passing along
sessions in peace and quiet. Or so we thought ... within six months or
a year, that had been taken over also. Of course we all know the
reputation chat programs have gotten in recent years, as a place for
young guys -- and some older guys as well -- to get in big trouble.  

Anyway, you were saying, people in other parts of the world seem to
sometimes dislike or disrespect internet -- basically an American
invention -- mainly because so many of them hate Americans. That's a
very good point. I guess if our country wants to be part of the world
community we need to make some changes, eh?      PAT]

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