30 Dec
2015
30 Dec
'15
8:41 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Huw Davies <
huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au> wrote:
Citation is the sincerest compliment. :-)
worked
for Pacific Telecom in the early 1990s, there was still a crossbar
exchange in Forks, Washington. Also in the PTI world was a very modern ESS
(the model escapes me) that replaced an old system that could not keep up
with regional growth. As a result, the rather small town of Kalispell,
Montana enjoyed high-speed data services superior to anything I could get
in the Portland/Vancouver area!
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
On 30 Dec 2015, at 11:58, Ian S. King <isking
at uw.edu> wrote:
But it is intriguing to see the computer as
pop-culture artifact within a
broader grouping of like artifacts. (You're welcome, Jay.) In my
academic
work, I use the term 'consumer computer'
rather than 'personal computer'
because the latter term is so overloaded and controversial.
Great terminology. Can I have permission to use it too :-)
I do have to say, though, that in the '80s
many if not most phones had
transitioned to touch-tone 'dialing' (what a delightfully archaic term!).
Nit picked. ? Ian
Not in Australia where the article was written. Government regulations
meant that phones still had dials and modems were both hard to get and very
expensive.
Ah, good point. And to hie back to an earlier part of the thread, when I