[801] in Humor
HUMOR: At last - a real use for beepers!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon Apr 3 16:12:18 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 16:08:25 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 18:41:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU>
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From: Raja Sundaram <rsundara@cisco.com>
- -- This was taken from "Telemanagement, The Angus Report on
Communications Systems, Services, and Strategies": According to
"America's Network" magazine, a Texas rancher has equipped some of
his cows with beepers. They've been trained to associate the beep
with feeding, so when he wants them to come to the barn, the
rancher just dials the pager number. The beeper-equipped cows
start heading home, and the others -- cows being cows -- just
follow the leaders. That's right. You can even drive cattle on
the information highway! -- Karen Kervin, Basking Ridge, N.J.
