On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:37:15PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin alex quotation: | > | > Most of the difficulties were with the winmodem. Some could not get the | | IMHO, this shouldn't deter anybody. This is a good enough price on | these systems that you can pitch the winmodem in the trash (where it | belongs) and throw on a real modem, and not miss the $10 you wasted.
Don't people have real modems left over from the ere before this I'm-too-cheap-to-finish-building-this-hardware modems? I managed to end up with 4 (2 internal ISA, 2 external RS-232) such modems and have never bought a modem (except for the on-board winmodem in a compaq machine; never buy compaq). | Or, better yet, mail the winmodem back to Wal-Mart, with a "thanks | anyway, bought a Courier v.Everything external on eBay for $20 instead." ROFL! Just add a little video camera to the letter so you can see the look on the person's face when they open it :-). -D -- An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. Proverbs 12:25 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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