Modeling Library Communications Traffic
John S. Kountz · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1984
It exudes a state of euphoric glee i.e., our system at work! The most recent episode of this situation comedy (called "free enterprise") was entitled: "It works, it's reliable and cheap so let's dump it!" Thus, it can be argued that the world's only working reliable economical telecommunications system was scrapped to satisfy the desires of a handful of entrepreneurs. Basically, individuals who had discovered that a string of radio transmitter/receiver combinations, once installed, could make money because such devices require very little attention if done right and would nearly run forever just add electricity!