On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:24:53 -0500, Johnson, Tracy <Tracy.Johnson@MEAS-
SPEC.COM> wrote:

>Maybe even more so in Germany where they may* have to pay a tax per
>machine that can access the Internet on Jan 1.

Actually it is a fee because thru the internet/PC you can acces TV and 
radio-stations.
At least satellite TV is free except for the weird charges for the 
government-run TV stations.
In comparison, TV is cheaper there.
So is cell-phone, regular phone and specially health-care.


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>One mainframe, one tax hit, instead of a hundred, or a thousand.
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>Dumb terminals will be making a comeback!

use citrix and thin-client. no idea if they charge for that as well.

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>Then they'll say that even dumb terminals have processors in them.
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>Then Teletypes will be making a comeback!  Woohoo!
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>* Still up in the air.

stupid government-employees unite yourself on a tiny isolated island and 
leave us alone. We would be better off in so many ways.



>Tracy Johnson
>Measurement Specialties, Inc. 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Timothy Atwood
>> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:26 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Mainframes making a comeback
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>> Same place it has been for a couple of decades. With its head 
>> up its...
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Michael Baier" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:19 AM
>> Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Mainframes making a comeback
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>> > where is HP?
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