On Nov 26, 1995 at 10:04, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 db>> I've already worked a way around NetComm's plan; 
 BG>
 BG> Oh really?  Where did you get the Plutonium for your bomb then?  :)

SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 BG> True for local call use, but if you were a corporate client who needed a
 BG> good fast modem for ISD, you'd have actually lost money doing that.  As
 BG> you're not though, I guess it's completely irrelevant.  :)

Bingo.  :-)

 BG> Is that what you call "the trailing edge" of technology then?

No - that's when you get a technology that is well and truely out-dated,
just because you're sure that it's been tried and tested to death.  There
are some things in which I'm willing to be on the bleeding edge, others
where I prefer to be a few steps back.  Modems is the latter (mostly,
anyway), whereas video cards (see OS2_Z3) is the former.

 BG> So what's wrong with the old computer - not fast enough?

You bet!

 BG> The same could be said for 14k4 modems too, I guess...

There's always a use for 'em (as Keith indicated, there's even a serious
business use for 2,400bps), but as my primary gimme-a-response-now machine,
it's definitely time that I replaced my i486DX EISA 33MHz.

 BG> Np point using smileys on Paul - they appear to mean nothing to him.  :)

Oh, I thought our FearlessLeader(tm) had quite a sense of humour?!  ;-)

 BG> I'm not really down on their modems, just Netcomm and their policies.

Ahhh, that's something different - there I can agree with you completely.  :-)

 db>>> Ner.  :-)
[...]
 BG> Could be anything - No Eating Rice, No Early Roots... damn, I give up!

Try harder, boy!  ;-)

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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