Subject:  Apple Computer adds Wireless Option (Brown)....
Date:     Fri, 13 Aug 1999 113453 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.......This is the LAN issue again.....  Thanks, Gary.....
Sounds like you needed to have some of your school board members
present???

Re:  "lap usage."  I wonder -- would it help to wrap "you know what" in
reflective foil???

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:23:00 -0400
From: Gary Brown 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" ,
Subject: Apple Computer adds Wireless Option

Roy,
As a technology analysts for one of the nation's largest school
districts, computer companies are always trying to show us their newest
technological creations. I sat at a presentation from Apple Computer this
week with a dozen other individuals from my school district. Apple
was showing us their newest soon to be released lap-top computer.
Although the new colors and design were attractive you can't always tell a
book from its cover.

Half way through their power point presentation I was horrified to
discover that the lap top has an optional wireless feature that operates
on a wireless frequency  of 2.5 Gig . The devise has an internal antenna
and has an operating range of 150 feet to a relaying base
station or to another Apple Lap-Top. Up to 8 Lap-Tops can operate off a
single base station.

The unit transmits .25 watts of power. This application is primarily for
the education sector and would save the expense and complication
associated with wiring. Each base station receiver/transmitter  costs
approximately 350 dollars and each laptop costs an additional 99
dollars for the wireless component. The lap top is about  $1,500 each.

When questions were entertained I asked the reps from Apple how much
liability insurance they carried. Looking confused by my question the reps
asked me why. I replied by asking them what would Apple do if the all the
scientific research on microwave was found to cause maladies
associated with mircrowave.rf exposure, especially rf exposure to a room
full of children who are at three times the risk from this type of
exposure? Apple relied that the company did not have a formal statement on
this issue but they were in compliance with IEEE 's 800 standard.
I replied that the IEEE standards on microwave were not especially
applicable on microwave because the IEEE has not performed research to
indicate a safe standard for microwave in this application.

I also verbally listed a half dozen research studies that indicate harmful
issues associated with microwave exposure from cell phones.

I welcome any  research on this standard if you or any other reader
wishes to send it to me.

My e-mail is as follows:
distance education@netscape.net
Thanks
Gary from FACTS


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