From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekecs!randals Newsgroups: net.religion,net.misc Title: 666 shows up again Article-I.D.: tekecs.598 Posted: Wed Mar 9 09:36:47 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 05:18:50 1983 Obviously, this discussion has already made its rounds once, but I found a new piece of data yesterday that might spark some interesting remarks. According to the April issue of "Technology Illustrated" (page 64) in an article titled "The New Mobile Telephones": "The FCC has authorized 666 channels (for two-way communication) in the UHF band for the new service [cellular telephones]." The article later goes on to say that the Bell system is the largest (although not the only one) of the companies getting into the act of producing user-end equipment for this project. Kinda gives a whole new slant on "the number of the beast". (Maybe you can reach him [it?] by cellular telephone soon!) Not afraid to use the "6" on my phone, Randal L. Schwartz Tektronix Engineering Computing Systems (the UNIX folks) Wilsonville, Oregon, USA *** note the NEW address *** UUCP: ...!{ucbvax or decvax}!tektronix!tekecs!randals (ignore return address) CSNET: tekecs!randals @ tektronix ARPA: tekecs!randals.tektronix @ rand-relay