Re: [PLUG] [OT] Contacts in Philly Government

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 02 Sep, 2004, at 11:30, M.Simons wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Alexander Birch wrote:
> > Does any one here work for the city of Philadelphia? Please send me an
> > email off the list.
>
> What do you want? I assume, to contact them about the wireless thing? I
> don't work for philly govt but have contacts.

Any idea which company has been talking to them ... Penn was first 
solicited about this exact concept about 10 years ago. Offhand I don't 
recall the outfit, but at the time, they claimed that they had wired 
"Berkeley" that way. [As it turned out, they told Berkeley that they 
had wired Philadelphia at the same time ... they didn't think that we 
would ever talk to each other, being on opposite coasts and all that. 
:) ]

This is not a new idea, despite the way the Inquirer article read.  ... 
but then again, since the article quotes Street as saying ... 
"Philadelphia hasn't had a first in technology since UNIVAC."


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