telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (12/25/90)
This is more or less the final issue of 1990, however I may issue one or two more over the weekend if any news of importance comes along. Otherwise TELECOM Digest will resume publication about the middle of next week as the new year and the new decade gets under way. Or are you like me, insisting that the new decade began a year ago, despite what the calendar puritans say? To close this issue, and probably this year, I've attached a couple quotes of interest received from readers. The one is from a .signature file I deleted when an article from the reader first appeared. The other was sent along specifically for your enjoyment today. First, a very wise business decision by Western Union over a hundred years ago which they probably still wish they could change. Gabe Wiener sent this with an article some time ago: Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings gabe@ctr.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu communication. The device is inherently of 72355.1226@compuserve.com no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877 Thanks to Gabe for sending that along. Now a thought from Mark Twain: From: 99700000 <haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu> Subject: Holiday Greetings From Mark Twain "It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us - the high, the low, the rich , the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage - may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the telephone." Mark Twain, 1890 Let's being 1991 with new topics please: No 'Re' messages on existing threads, most of which have worn thin. Please hold your articles and do not mail them here before about December 29 - 30. In case we don't chat again for a week or so, have a very happy new year! Patrick Townson