From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 3 20:19:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from vienna9.his.com (vienna9.his.com [216.200.68.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D58A37B419 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 20:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.8] (root@[127.0.0.1]) by vienna9.his.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g443JC514156; Fri, 3 May 2002 23:19:13 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200205040124.g441Ot4I038449@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200205040124.g441Ot4I038449@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 05:17:50 +0200 To: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: KMail or Evolution?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:24 PM -0500 2002/05/03, David Kelly wrote: > In theory this isn't in my job description. In practice I'm wondering > if when telephones first came out if the "telephone guru" didn't have > to go around periodically and uncoil user's handset cords. Not that I know of. However, they did have to regularly go out to everyone's homes (and other places where telephones were installed) and replace the batteries, which were usually put in the wall somewhere near the phone. In those days, the phone company couldn't provide enough power over the lines to supply the phones, and lead-acid batteries were the only solution -- power from lines were either not available, or not reliable enough, and you had fights between the companies providing short-distance DC power and those providing longer-distance AC power. When the phone company started providing power over their own lines for the phones, they quickly became the largest or second-largest power supply company in the world. I think it was sometime in the 70's when the very last of the original style of battery-powered phone was retired, but you'd have to check the history books to be sure. > One reason I use Macintosh at work. Especially for internet and email. Welcome to the club. ;-) -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message