[WEB4LIB] Re: CueCat -- Any Progress?

[Drew, Bill]

> Every hacker Digital Convergence knows about 
>got a cease
>and desist order in the mail.

I find it quite ironic that Radio Shack is distributing these things and
that Digital Convergence is going after hackers of the device.  Radio Shack
started as a place for electronics hobbyists to buy parts to build radios
and such.  I was such a hobbyist many years ago.  The intellectual
descendants of those hobbyists are the ones hacking the cat reader.  Of
course the hobbyist of many years ago would be quite upset to go into Radio
Shack and try to find anyone that really knows anything about real
electronics anymore.  I was in the Radio Shack in Cortland, NY last week
trying to find a terminal block for a second phone line we just had
installed at home.  The three sales people there had no idea what I was
after.  I had to show it to them in the catalog before we could locate it in
the store.  

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