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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9190)	11/19/2000 5:48:41 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Thanks, Mike. From fat, to thin, to no. Very interesting. About ten years ago we outfitted a brokerage in this fashion. The owners didn't want any PCs/drives in user areas, so we stacked all of the PCs in the equipment closet to form a cluster (which, I thought, could have been replaced by a mini, since they didn't want each user to have their own). The greatest technical challenge was the price-performance engineering to deliver high quality video from each PC and market data unit (Bloomberg, et al, in addition to standard color monitor capabilities from the PCs) to the desk. We wound up having to resort to fiber optic transceivers for this, of the type that delivered High Res 600 MHz over FM sideband per channel on each of the RGB components. Which leads me to wonder some more about how this cafe has their terminals wired for high quality video delivery. Any idea? FAC

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9190)	11/19/2000 7:04:53 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Mike, and welcome back. re:internet cafes, I guess I'm spoiled...what you describe sounds like a real pain in the <insert your favorite politician here>, and something that would be "emergency use only." But I guess it's all relative to what you're used to. I'd probably never use the internet if I had to do it like that. So if you want to download a file that's bigger than 1.44MB, you're outta luck? or do they have CD drives they can save to & sell you the CD? And what about laptops....can you go in with your laptop and buy a connection only? Also I'm curious of the screen size of the monitors in their cubicles. re: the "cafe" part...where's the food????