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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:31:29 -0700
To: png@ideaphile.com
From: "D.V. Henkel-Wallace" <gumby@cygnus.com>
Subject: toscana apartments are hardly the cutting edge of technology!

I can't believe you're still getting the runaround at Toscana. There are apartment complexes in Palo Alto that have been offering T-1 access since 1989!

Cheers,
d

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:37:10 -0700
To: "Peter N. Glaskowsky" <png@ideaphile.com>
From: "D.V. Henkel-Wallace" <gumby@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: toscana apartments are hardly the cutting edge of technology!

At 09:30 -0700 06/22/98, Peter N. Glaskowsky wrote:
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> Really? This is the first I've heard of that. Which apartments? How is it
> delivered to the individual units? How is it priced? If you can provide me
> with enough detail on this I'll add a section to my Web site.

The complex is the one on University, one set before Guinda. They don't have a "name" and each unit has its own address. The addresses range from somewhere around the 850's to the 810's on the even side of the street. When I lived there it was a thinnet network, but I believe the technology has long since been upgraded. The complex was in fact the first POP of The Little Garden network (later bought by Best) which was the first ISP west of the misissippi.

I don't believe there is any restruction on use; conversely there probably is no firewall (naturally there were none when I lived there).

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:10:48 -0700
To: "Peter N. Glaskowsky" <png@ideaphile.com>
From: "D.V. Henkel-Wallace" <gumby@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: toscana apartments are hardly the cutting edge of technology!

At 17:58 -0700 06/24/98, Peter N. Glaskowsky wrote:
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> Who owns the complex? Who operates the service? How is the service paid for?
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> Also, would you mind if I put your responses together onto my Toscana page?

I don't mind, but I'm afraid I also don't remember much more. It used to be operated by The Little Garden as I said, but that doesn't exist any more, and I no longer know anyone who lives there.

Sure you can put it on your page -- the Toscana guys seemed pretty happy to have been the first -- a pity for them that almost 10 years earlier someone had it working better!