RT> BB>On (07 Jan 98) Rd Thompson wrote to Rich Griebel...
 RT> BB> RT> Your VDT terminals are even better.  They are not scannable, 
AFIK.
 RT> BB>Don't believe it.
 RT> BB>The standard MDT terminals that have been sold by the biggest
 RT>   >manufacturer in the business for years, use a format that
 RT>   >can be monitored using about $10.00 in parts from your
 RT>   >local radio shack, and shareware of the internet.
 RT> Is that $10.00 in _addition_ to a suitable receiver, computer, and TNC
 RT> :)
 RT> BB>The mailing lists and newsgroups on the internet are full
 RT>   >of this information.  We built one, to show a customer.
 RT> I don't know much about MDT technology, but it sure looks a lot like
 RT> packet radio that we HAMS have been doing for years.  Except for some
 RT> sort of encrypting protocol, it shouldn't be much of a problem.  We
 RT> don't have MDT locally so I've never looked into it.
It can't be all that hard - after all, we buy our MDT's from the lowest 
bidder,
 and spend as little as possible....
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