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In <1591@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:

>What I may be trying to say is that you may be able to put up a solar
>cell, with a $50 (that food for ~100 days in some areas) terminal and
>a modem, to push data down a telehone line "reliable for 3 hours a
>day", but where are you are going to buy or exchange or cannibilise
>spare parts for any part of the equipment that breaks down?

What you are actually saying is a lot of trash, viz don't let
anyone start because it is conceivable that something might
possibly go wrong with their equipment and this could not get
fixed.

You have not the slightest idea of what can be done with a "mirrors
and string" approach, and this represents a very disappointing
but not atypical attitude from someone in a high-tech country. If
you encourage something to get off the ground, you'd end up surprised
at what results could be achieved, if you kill it because the sky
might fall on your head, you get nowhere.

Mike
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Mike Lawrie
Director Computing Services, Rhodes University, South Africa
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