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To: Loring who wrote (16115)	7/31/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Would kids be able to use iMac at home, send their file to school via e-mail, and retrieve at school for the next day's work? Gee, there's a novel idea. I wonder why Mossberg never thought of that? I think that's Steve's plan, actually. They should bundle a copy of Eudora with every iMac. Mark

To: Loring who wrote (16115)	7/31/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: smartInvestor	Respond to of 213182

Would kids be able to use iMac at home, send their file to school via e-mail, and retrieve at school for the next day's work? Initially, yes, I would expect file transfer to be low-tech. In the near future, though, I expect web-based services to pop-up that essentially perform one-button synchronization between net-based storage and whatever machine you are using. There's an interesting service called Visto Briefcase that does this for both files as well as personal information. Certainly people will have to get over the thought of storing personal files and information on some random computer on the net (well, not quite random), but I don't expect that to be a huge problem, especially if some trusted brands get into the business. Unfortunately, to take full advantage of Visto Briefcase, you need Win95 but you can do virtually everything, albeit more manually, with the web interface. Go to briefcase.com

To: Loring who wrote (16115)	7/31/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Jonathan Bird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Would kids be able to use iMac at home, send their file to school via e-mail, and retrieve at school for the next day's work? Currently it is very rare for a k-12 school to give students their own eMail address on a large scale. But what I think would be even cooler then eMailing documents to school would be to provide each student with some FTP space. As I understand it, the new Navigation Services in OS 8.5 will allow you to save to an FTP site across the internet just as transparently as you can save to a floppy disk. Jon Bird

To: Loring who wrote (16115)	7/31/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213182

<<Would kids be able to use iMac at home, send their file to school via e-mail, and retrieve at school for the next day's work?>> Again, we are not thinking about efficient ways of using technology. Sure, you can e-mail the files to school. Why bother? How about uploading the files directly to the school's public server? Or to the teacher's server volume or even directly to the private web/file server directly on the student's PC running 24 hours a day at school? We recently migrated people to new computers here at work and one of the user's got whiff of the fact that her files had to be transferred. Rather than simply dragging and dropping them (over 3,000 files) to her folder on the server, she called the helpdesk complaining, "How do they expect me to e-mail 3,000+ files to myself before the deadline!? I've been working all morning and so far I've only been able to attach 75!" Why even bother with a telephone connection when the files can be beamed to the student's eMate via IR ports and carried in a knapsack? They can then be worked on in the schoolbus. Thereby, we assure a whole generation of productive workers who grow up getting premature ulcers and learning to take work home on weekends and holidays. :) -Bill_H