From daemon Mon Jun 12 12:15 EDT 1995 Received: from nic.cerf.net (root@nic.cerf.net [192.102.249.3]) by town.hall.org (8.6.12/941123.08ccg) with ESMTP id MAA05017 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:10:12 -0400 Received: from .cerfnet.com (default71.usa.cerfnet.com [134.24.8.71]) by nic.cerf.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA03027 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:12:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:12:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199506121612.JAA03027@nic.cerf.net> X-Sender: libbutt1@cerfnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 To: jec@town.hall.org From: libbutt1@CERF.NET Subject: Vidio Conferences X-Mailer: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 1762 Status: RO Two of the guests watched this morning suffered techno-lag. Welcome to the twenty-first century? More like the forties, or whenever they were performing the first experiments on early television. I was dumping a tape fragment from a tape I wished to reuse in it's entirity, and put- ting it on the end of another which had just enough room to hold it. To see the C-Span broadcast, I had to juggle three or four cables, some with snap-on connectors, and of course the one from Viacom with threads that would not come off, so with some cursing, nonverbal, from missing a bit of show, I wondered (watching a little four inche teevee) why it is when things are suppose to be so wonderful, technologically, that a technician like myself can barely maintain our crude information tech- nology? What's an ordinary person to do? As a volunteer at the Butte Co. Library, I have seen more and more fund slashes, and it's running on a skeleton crew, without the help of many persons who put in free time. I am sending this from our internet work station, via Infopeople program, to last until the end of this month. A few people will be able to afford this service, when it is charged for. As for those with limited funds, more than most of us in Oroville, it is back to telephones, 2400 baud modems, and only local connections, if we are ever fortunate enough to own even a computer. I've believe the next century is here when the companies which provide these newer services can start getting it right the first time, and allow bright normal peo- access to all that information that is out there somewhere, just out of their reach. Sam Harned Oroville, Ca.