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Aucbvax.2361 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Sun Jul 19 11:14:50 1981 Noise, interference and Micro computers. >From DREIFU@WHARTON-10 Sun Jul 19 11:04:00 1981 I think that the problem also revolves around more than just meeting the regulations. If a small computer is placed near a television it certainly does interfere with its reception. That can be fixed.

The power on an airplane is not very clean I am told. That is to say there is a lot of Spiking and all sorts of terrible havoc in/on the power grid. Equipment, and especially computers will have to be able to handle that.

The industry is/will probably be looking seriously at this innovation in a year or two [a guestimate]. Getting such a service available is also quite a task. Think of having to train the (I have to call them) 'flight attendants' to operate such a monstrosity. With all the 11 and 14 year old kids on a given flight, how can a person get some real work done, when kids are yammering and constantly waiting for you to finish your text editing. How much should an airline charge extra for you to sit at that seat? $ 5.00 /hr connect + CPU? Not that unreasonable.

Take that a step further. I spent the last two weeks banging back and forth from New York and Philadelphia on AMTrack [late as ever]. Why not install Micro Workstations on the MetroLiners? No noise/navigational problems there (??).

Henry Dreifus

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