Has anyone here ever used a Dowalert back in its heyday of the early 1980s?
For those who don't know, a Dowalert is a device that resembles a tape-driven telephone answering machine. Dow Jones had an idea of broadcasting stock information over FM radio to this device for later perusal by subscribers. The device has a keypad upon which you'd enter numbers for particular classes of information you want. The broadcast would include a code detectable by the device. If the code on the broadcast matched one of those selected by the subscriber, the tape recorder would start recording. Then an alert light would turn on letting the user know that some new information is available.
-- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
