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Hello Wayne - 

WC>> Mot a happy camper just now, red tide standing off the
WC>> gulf coast. My throats scratchy, eyes watering, ect, 

CA>> I don't know what a "red tide" is. 

WC> Lucky you. 

Some of it has been 'luck' but some of it has been just common
sense. After reading about Ponce de Leon and his band of
misfits looking for the fountain of youth down there I decided
that the Indians could keep the swamps we now know of as
Florida. :-) 

WC> It's a biological bloom in the gulf when the temperature is
WC> warm and rains runoff fertilizers feeding the organisms. It
WC> is redddish and the beaches here are strewn with dead fish. 

Trying to visualize shooting a postcard to encourage tourism
with dead fish at my feet. Does this red tide also kill the
man-o-war jellyfish or do they eat that too and thrive on it? 

WC> The toxins put out by the organism get picked up by the
WC> winds and sensitive people like myself suffer cold like
WC> symptoms, cough, scratchy throat, burning eyes ect :-( 

Easy to see why you've stayed there - NOT! 

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CA>> I've read up on several flash updates for various hardware
CA>> and found warnings about using the wrong versions that
CA>> were buried in the howtos or even on another webpage from
CA>> the howtos. It would be quite easy to totally disable the
CA>> hardware permanently. 

WC> No longer an issue, can't find a suitable flash. So it
WC> lives with a 1X CD-ROM and 540 meg for Win 3.1, Linux of
WC> course shares no such limit and can exist beyong 540. No
WC> problem. 

OnTrack probably has a version that could extend DOS beyond the
540meg limit but realistically 540meg is more than enough for
W31 to have access to. 

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CA>> All that should be required is to use stainless steel or
CA>> monel metal for the battery holder AFAIK. 

WC> The clip on the H.P. appears stainless. Since the P.B. is
WC> 10 years old I suspect someone soldered in a new battery
WC> and holder. 

I think, as I have said, too many batteries weren't making a
solid contact and the manuf just decided to solder them in
place. 

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