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...know, I bought a new Macintosh 180 notebook last week with some extra money from the Evening With Champions fund, and boy did it pay off! You tried to convince me that an internal fax and modem was unnecessary, but last night I tapped into Katie Roiphe's E-mail account. Figuring out passwords isn't really as tough as I thought: Katie's was `mediahound.' Most of the stuff was pretty boring (it's a good thing Katie decided not to try and publish her poetry--that shit is awful) but I found one old memo which seems...
...current modem users, 16 additional telephone lines have been ordered. This should help prevent students who dial in to the system from getting a busy signal...
Dubbed the Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN), the project will enable students and faculty, for the price of a pair of in-line roller skates, to communicate with students from Thayer to Australia--without any messy modem cables or huge phone bills...
...Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were...
...March federal agents raided bulletin boards in 15 states searching for evidence that they were trafficking in child pornography (which, unlike most pornography, is illegal in the U.S.). Parents' and women's groups complain that sexually explicit material is still available to any youngster who can operate a modem. "The last thing this culture needs," writes Stephanie Salter in the San Francisco Examiner, "is yet another method for reducing women to sex objects...