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From: bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 06:05:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 06:05:46 1984
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Lauren's in the right ball park on unit costs given a comercial market ...
the $500 dollor pricing will be agressive given the market size.

It would be helpful if an ongoing technical disclosure would appear on
this network to allow others the chance of viewing (and participating??)
in the stargate project during it's trial. How about disclosure of
technical info to allow HighTech types to build a decoder? Online wirelist
of Laurens prototypes, parts lists, design information, alignment info,
source to microcontroller, etc ... would be both informative and go a
long way to removing questions of keeping the info locked up to support
private enterprise funded by USENIX. I imagine that their are a number
on engineers on the net with the skills to build (and design) such decoders
given enough information on the subject ... I don't see any reason why
it could be posted to the net now ...

John Bass