Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site crystal.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!crystal!bill From: bill@crystal.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Gold Coast Distributers Message-ID: <381@crystal.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:28:06 EST Article-I.D.: crystal.381 Posted: Thu Dec 6 13:28:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:54:28 EST References: <44000013@uiucdcs.UUCP> <242@alberta.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 28 > > The gifts are: > > 1) An 18 food cabin power boat. > > 2) A Sony home entertainment center (projection TV, VCR and stereo). > > 3) A cable TV satellite dish. > > 4) An IBM PC jr with monitor and printer. > > 5) A 1985 Cadillac. > > From information I have seen on the net before I think it is > 3) The cable TV satellite dish > > This dish is not your standard full size $2-3K type of dish but is in > fact a small (1-2ft diam) cheap receiving dish with no accompanying > sophisticated electronics worth maybe fifty bucks. Don't expect > a high quality signal from this one. Of course with all those vitamins > to eat you probably won't have much time to watch TV anyway. Note that the list says DISH, not DISH WITH ASSOCIATED ELECTRONICS. You'll get to buy your own down-converter, etc, plus a super amp to boost the signals from your 12" dish to something usable :-) -- a spun aluminum dish without mounting stuff or electronics can be had for around twenty bucks or so. -- William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@uwisc ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill