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Message no. 1
From: Mike Alex <mra0118@******.sdsmt.edu>
Subject: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:07:08 -0600 (MDT)
Just go done reading the June issue of Pop Sci at our local
library. On page thirty-something they have an article on a piece of tech
which bears a striking resemblance to BattleTac. Apparently someone wired
together a cellular modem, an apple Newton messsage pad and a GPS unit for
use as a tactical comm system. If you can get your hands on a copy for a
few minutes, i suggest you check it out...

Mike Alex, mra0118@******.sdsmt.edu
"Resistance is futile, (if < 1 ohm)."
Message no. 2
From: Benjamin <benjamin@*****.com>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:37:48 PDT
>
> Just go done reading the June issue of Pop Sci at our local
> library. On page thirty-something they have an article on a piece of tech
> which bears a striking resemblance to BattleTac. Apparently someone wired
> together a cellular modem, an apple Newton messsage pad and a GPS unit for
> use as a tactical comm system. If you can get your hands on a copy for a
> few minutes, i suggest you check it out...
>
> Mike Alex, mra0118@******.sdsmt.edu
> "Resistance is futile, (if < 1 ohm)."
>
>
>

This reminds me.

HAS ANYONE FIGURED OUT HOW MUCH THE DAMN THING COSTS?
Yes, I am shouting. IT is the battletac thingie.

delete any that are innapropriate:Thank you/oh well/FUCK YOU TOO!
Message no. 3
From: Mike Alex <mra0118@******.sdsmt.edu>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:39:02 -0600 (MDT)
>
> >
> > Just go done reading the June issue of Pop Sci at our local
> > library. On page thirty-something they have an article on a piece of tech
> > which bears a striking resemblance to BattleTac. Apparently someone wired
> > together a cellular modem, an apple Newton messsage pad and a GPS unit for
> > use as a tactical comm system. If you can get your hands on a copy for a
> > few minutes, i suggest you check it out...
> >
> > Mike Alex, mra0118@******.sdsmt.edu
> > "Resistance is futile, (if < 1
ohm)."
> >
> >
> >
>
> This reminds me.
>
> HAS ANYONE FIGURED OUT HOW MUCH THE DAMN THING COSTS?
> Yes, I am shouting. IT is the battletac thingie.
>
> delete any that are innapropriate:Thank you/oh well/FUCK YOU TOO!
>

The article said he was going to sell the production unit for
about $4,000 a piece I think...

Mike Alex, mra0118@******.sdsmt.edu
"Resistance is futile, (if < 1 ohm)."
Message no. 4
From: Chowder <jhm1247@*.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:53:56 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Mike Alex wrote:

> Just go done reading the June issue of Pop Sci at our local
> library. On page thirty-something they have an article on a piece of tech
> which bears a striking resemblance to BattleTac. Apparently someone wired
> together a cellular modem, an apple Newton messsage pad and a GPS unit for
> use as a tactical comm system. If you can get your hands on a copy for a
> few minutes, i suggest you check it out...

Actually, up here at the U. of Utah, a robotics company named Sarcos owns
half of one of the buildings on campus. Sarcos did the robotics for
"Jurassic Park". Anyway, they were testing out a system very similar to
the BattleTac system, except that it monitors your life signs, too. I
found it kind of ironic that the military tech in SR is behind current tech.

Chowder <John.Moeller@*.cc.utah.edu> OR <John.Moeller@*.cc.utah.edu>
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Message no. 5
From: Hairy Smurf <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 02:15:39 -0400 (EDT)
At 23:53 6/19/96 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Mike Alex wrote:
>
>> Just go done reading the June issue of Pop Sci at our local
>> library. On page thirty-something they have an article on a piece of tech
>> which bears a striking resemblance to BattleTac. Apparently someone wired
>> together a cellular modem, an apple Newton messsage pad and a GPS unit for
>> use as a tactical comm system. If you can get your hands on a copy for a
>> few minutes, i suggest you check it out...
>
>Actually, up here at the U. of Utah, a robotics company named Sarcos owns
>half of one of the buildings on campus. Sarcos did the robotics for
>"Jurassic Park". Anyway, they were testing out a system very similar to
>the BattleTac system, except that it monitors your life signs, too. I
>found it kind of ironic that the military tech in SR is behind current tech.
>
>Chowder

Designers can only think so far ahead. Lets face it, the computers in the
original Star Trek series still had banks of light on the control panels. In
real life at the time each light was attached to individual vacuum tubes. If
the light went out it was time to chack the tube. That was supposed to be
centuries in the future yet most people now don't even know that's what the
lights were for. Give em a break their trying. :)


Sasquatch

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Message no. 6
From: Chowder <jhm1247@*.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:34:05 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Hairy Smurf wrote:

[deleted]
> >the BattleTac system, except that it monitors your life signs, too. I
> >found it kind of ironic that the military tech in SR is behind current tech.
> >
> >Chowder
>
> Designers can only think so far ahead. Lets face it, the computers in the
> original Star Trek series still had banks of light on the control panels. In
> real life at the time each light was attached to individual vacuum tubes. If
> the light went out it was time to chack the tube. That was supposed to be
> centuries in the future yet most people now don't even know that's what the
> lights were for. Give em a break their trying. :)

I wasn't criticizing, I was merely commenting on the nature of imagination.

Chowder <John.Moeller@*.cc.utah.edu> OR <John.Moeller@*.cc.utah.edu>
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Message no. 7
From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:19:28 +0200
On 20.06.96, Benjamin wrote about "Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue":
> This reminds me.
This reminds me to remind you: CUT YOUR QUOTES!

> HAS ANYONE FIGURED OUT HOW MUCH THE DAMN THING COSTS?
> Yes, I am shouting. IT is the battletac thingie.
...and so simple if you'd just read ya books... FoF, p.77, last paragraph
(sorry, just had a hard night, will not type this down), and FoF, p. 86,
the whole Telecom... stuff, and if you really like, also FoF, p. 99,
first eight lines.

This has been answered before, so read and remember, or other people
may shout too on the "battletac thingie" !


> delete any that are innapropriate:Thank you/oh well/FUCK YOU TOO!
Guess... :-)

Sascha

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Message no. 8
From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:46:46 +0200
On 20.06.96, Chowder wrote about "Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue":
> Actually, up here at the U. of Utah, a robotics company named Sarcos owns
> half of one of the buildings on campus. Sarcos did the robotics for
> "Jurassic Park". Anyway, they were testing out a system very similar to
> the BattleTac system, except that it monitors your life signs, too. I
> found it kind of ironic that the military tech in SR is behind current tech.
Well, it was probably the Crash of '29, that attacked all newtons :-)

Sascha

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| / / _______ | Jhary-a-Conel aka Sascha Pabst |The one who does not|
| / /_/ ____/ |Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.de| learn from history |
| \___ __/ | | is bound to live |
|==== \_/ ======| *Wearing hats is just a way of life* | through it again. |
|LOGOUT FASCISM!| - Me | |
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Message no. 9
From: "Spike" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:14:53 +0100 (BST)
|"Jurassic Park". Anyway, they were testing out a system very similar to
|the BattleTac system, except that it monitors your life signs, too. I
|found it kind of ironic that the military tech in SR is behind current tech.

Eh? What do you think the Doc Wagon Bracelet does?
It acts as a GPS and lifesign reader sending your position to Docwagin
central.
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Message no. 10
From: Stephen Delear <shadow@***.com>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:16:35 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Spike wrote:

> |"Jurassic Park". Anyway, they were testing out a system very similar to
> |the BattleTac system, except that it monitors your life signs, too. I
> |found it kind of ironic that the military tech in SR is behind current tech.
>
> Eh? What do you think the Doc Wagon Bracelet does?
> It acts as a GPS and lifesign reader sending your position to Docwagin
> central.

And remember Doc Wagon isn't the only one who can home in on a activated
bracelet. Keep in mind you can home a missile (or a corporate strike
team) in on one of those things.

Stephen



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> |Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
> |Principal subjects in:-| "THAT WOULD BE AN ECCLESIASTICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!!|
> |Comp Sci & something | - Father Jack in "Father Ted"
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Message no. 11
From: Chowder <jhm1247@*.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: BattleTac: Popular Science June Issue
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 01:47:34 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Spike wrote:

> Eh? What do you think the Doc Wagon Bracelet does?
> It acts as a GPS and lifesign reader sending your position to Docwagin
> central.

True, but the BattleTac doesn't.

Chowder <John.Moeller@*.cc.utah.edu> OR <John.Moeller@*.cc.utah.edu>
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