Making Money in Digital Money

[Bill Frantz]

At 9:56 AM -0700 4/29/03, Tim May wrote:
>* WiFi -- give me a fucking break! Wirelesss connections abound at CP
>meetings. And we were some of the earliest users of the Metricom
>wireless modems, circa 1995, with a special deal offered by some
>Metricom founders. Seeing laptops Metricomed to search engines for
>instant answers from the crowd was impressive, circa 1996-7. It still
>is.

As a brief historical note, the company name Combex
(http://www.combex.com/) was chosen in a Palo Alto cafe using a Metricom
modem.  For those who don't know about Combex, "Combex is a pioneer in the
development of secure distributed computing systems. Combex's personnel
represent the vast majority of the expertise in the use of the E secure
distributed computing platform that is the result of over $11M of R&D
effort expended over a six year period."

Cheers - Bill



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