a new BBS...

[bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca]

Tony Duell wrote:
>> To be fair, if you are lucky enough to qualify for Verizon FIOS, you 
>> won't ever want to use a modem.  30mb/s downstream to the house...
>>     
>
> And presumably once you get a new surround-sound system you'll never want 
> to listen to a vlaved radio again.
>   
Tell that to a HAM.
Well I must be going back to my childhood quickly as I age ...
They don't make quality sounding AM radios any more. The
All American Five does not count as quality radio's let alone
them new fangled transistor stuff.
> Once you get a modern Pentium (or whatever) PC, you'll never want to use 
> an 8 bit micro, or a PDP11, or... again.
>
>   
So just why you are this list ;)
> -tony
>
>   
PS. I think the real poblem is most people have not heard
broadcast quality audio, just the low end 45's , mono LP's
and crappy CD's.