Yo! Matthew:
Thursday August 08 1996 11:01, Matthew Sadler wrote to Bill Cheek:
 JH>> as for being easily modifiable-+--well hell, thats a typical
 JH>> government statment. Easily modifiable for us yes its easy. for the
 JH>> guy two doors down or across town no, not easy at all for them. so, i
 JH>> always thought that was a rather stupid statment.
 BC>> Stupid as it may be, it served to freak out all the
 BC>> manufacturers to pretty well remove cellular from the
 BC>> CPU ROM so that it can't be liberated, period.
 MS> Well, you've always got the morons at Icom, who, instead of just axing
 MS> cellular, decided, why not ax it all? They took ALL of 800 MHz! That's 
why
 MS> I won't buy Icom (that, and it's too *)^@)$ expensive!)
 MS> Just my $0.02 worth.
Nothing wrong with those two centavos.  Yeah, ICOM took the easy way out, but 
for all I know, there might be an "easy" way to restore it.  One wonders if 
they left a door open somewhere.  I think government agencies can get units 
with the full 800 MHz band, so it must not be anything real serious.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP
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