Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs Message-ID: <18800006@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 13:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcla.18800006 Posted: Mon Dec 10 13:33:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:42:30 EST References: <466@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:vortex:-46600:hpfcla:18800006:000:813 Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs Dec 18 10:33:00 1984 > Who are the real customers for satellite news? How many commercial news > sites will even be able to get a cable TV hookup, or justify it to > management? (Let them buy earth stations? Ha.) Here at HP in Fort Collins, we already have several satellite dishes, we could probably justify to management a decoder box and/or a cable tap (simply on the basis of saving phone bills), and some of us are watching with interest. Lauren, thanks for taking the trouble to make this happen; please keep us (the Net) informed of developments. Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado {ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43" (In this case it's important that I point out, this is just my own opinion, and doesn't in any way reflect official policy.)