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To: Larry S. who wrote (4776)	11/28/1998 5:08:00 PM
From: HIA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4903

So the cable company is the ISP and the AOL $10 charge is an extra charge? Many cable ISP customers would just use Yahoo, Netcenter and SI...at no extra charge... But I do wonder how the telephone companies are going to compete with the cable companies with the cable companies upgrading systems and the phone companies doing nothing...(The single cable residential line could do everything...for the phone companies to compete they would have to give two lines for the price of one...develop DSL...and still give up performance advantages...Wireless?...)...So the fate of telephone line ISP is in the hands of the phone companies...the ISPs can do nothing themselves except lobby for access to the cable systems...but...the cable operators want to be the ISPs on the cable systems! So...AOL hedges the future with Netcenter...

To: Larry S. who wrote (4776)	11/29/1998 6:43:00 AM
From: ztect	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4903

Last bit of humor, sorry for the intrusion.. The Top 11 Entries in Bill Gates's Diary 11. Invited entire tech-support department to play golf. Brought Melissa to complete the foursome. 10. Steve Jobs started work today. The silverware looks great, but he doesn't do windows -- yet. 9. The baby cries constantly. Maybe I'll buy Fisher-Price. 8. Bought my first Macintosh. It's sooooo cute! 7. Good day. Found over 15 bucks' worth of soda cans in the trash bins outside Microsoft headquarters. 6. Bad day. Ellison sent back the heads of two of the three hitmen I hired, along with a note saying he ate the third one whole. 5. Still ahead of Murdoch and Eisner. Yes! 4. Reminder: 35-cent Snapple coupon expires in two days! 3. Memo to self: Next time, when my wife says we need to buy china, she means dishes. 2. Ran into Demi and Bruce. Upped my offer to a billion dollars. 1. Seventh day: rested.