[LINK] VeriChip RFID Based Patient Identificaiton System

[Adam Todd]

At 10:23 AM 27/05/2007, Stewart Fist wrote:


>Adam asked
> >
> > Is the "Orb" feature being pushed to mobile phone users a derivative
> > of this "Orbit" you mention.  (I'm guessing no.)
>
>No.  Dialog was a multiple-access database system run by Lockheed in Los
>Angeles, and Orbit was a similar operation run by the SDC Corporation. I
>tried to get the Australian rights to the SDC system, but progress overtook
>me.

SDC - my gawd that brings back memories.  Boy, that feels really 
antiquated now!

>To access they databases we had a Teletype 33 printer terminal, and after
>about six months of negotiations and signing of long complicated documents,
>Telstra provided me with a suitcase-sized modem which, at 300 baud,

In a blue box :)  About 5 inches high, about 6 inches wide and about 
18 inches long :)  I have one of those here :)

>gave a better connection than the acoustic coupler I'd been using across the
>Pacific until then.

http://www.ah.net/acoupler-01.jpg

http://www.ah.net/acoupler-02.jpg

Like that :)

>It was all very exciting stuff.

Gee and I thought my first HDS terminal was exciting!