[Coco] Blue Coco

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Sat Jan 24 14:19:19 EST 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Swygert" <farna at att.net>


> I have a few old RS magazines and catalogs, but have them packed
away
> right now. "AgVision" was a network for agricultural information
that
> farmers could subscribe to. Don't know how long it lasted, but
> inexpensive terminals was a priority. Apparently the blue Vidtex
> terminal was made just for the AgVision network. I don't think the
idea
> really worked, as most farmers are by nature low tech. That's
changing,
> but only the big farms rely much on technology.

Really? I got the impression that most farmers were now on the net,
and many use tools like global positioning and satellite images to
help them.

NM




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