At 9:00 AM -0700 10/12/98, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
And we haven't gotten into things such as filtration for dust, smoke, gases, pollutants. Or other issues like electromagnetic interference, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Cell phones. How many people here have used a cell in a colocate where the use of cell phones is forbidden?
-- Electromagnetic interference in both directions. I'm deaf in my left ear, and wear (well, it's in the shop) a pair of hearing aid lookalikes. Actually, the left aid is a microphone and RF transmitter, that sends to a receiver in the right ear where the left-side sounds are mixed with the right.
I can't wear them in many circumstances because I have "special hearing" that gets overwhelmed. Get me within 5 feet of a Wyse terminal and I hear nothing but squeals. Going into an equipment room, and I might as well turn the aid off. Wonder if any other medical equipment is likely to be affected in a colo? My main regret is I haven't had an opportunity to visit NSA since I got the hearing aids. I want to see how they will cope with a visitor with an unauthorized transmitter in his head.