[geeks] Re: 48v

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:47:56AM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Jerry Pournelle(of Byte fame) doesn't strike me as a major phone geek and
> I seem to remeber that he has a PBX installed at his house, so apperently
> just having a PBX doesn't make you a major phone geek (knowing the 5x5
> thing probably does though).

Pournelle is just a hack - he probably sucked up to some company and
they installed it for him.

One of my favorite stories:  How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off of
the ARPAnet (precursor to the Internet):

http://catalog.com/hopkins/text/pourne-smut.html

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX