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To: TobagoJack who wrote (40887)	11/11/2003 2:59:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<I will remember to change the batteries on my wireless keyboard and mouse tonight. Cannot afford to lose control of PC tomorrow :0)> Hi Jay. Staying connected is having higher and higher value and it's easier and easier and cheaper and cheaper. This evening, our 19 year old daughter [Melissa] and I were sitting on the couch, each with our notebook computers, while upstairs management was using the mainframe computer. All in cyberspace. Mine via WiFi to mainframe and ADSL. Melissa's via Woosh [a W-CDMA] wireless link to a nearby base station. Upstairs directly wired to ADSL. Son [Tarken] was on line from Rangataua [by Mount Ruapehu a few hundred kilometres away] with MSN Messenger and voice and images an option via his WiFi link to his mainframe and thence 55 kbps old-fashioned modem via which he was checking out ip-star.com for a faster connection. When on the move, he used Telecom's CDMA2000 1xRTT network via his cyberphone and notebook computer. He also has built a WAP site to manage their customers' bookings and other information which they [the snowadventures.co.nz gang] can access via cellphones. 10 years ago, I could imagine the situation, and I didn't think it would take as long to get to now, but here we are. And the pace is not slowing down. 1xEV-DO, roamad.com via WiFi and other technologies are burgeoning. To think that I used to use a circular slide rule [and thought I was quite swanky because others had a silly old straight type] and bash away making holes in cards to run Fortran IV on a crusty old monster computer costing a fortune. Methanol-powered fuel cells will be a boon. Battery life is a major problem in mobility, or even just sitting around the house, where the power wire is a nuisance, requiring constant plugging in. Mqurice