Replying as you requested.
DJ>>I finally locked the serial port and manually called on
DJ>>(terminal) to get these messages.  I'll send this reply, and would
DJ>>appreciate it if you would let me know if you received same.
It was waiting for me when I got home from the bridge club at
11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 1998.  Is that a specific enough
statement? 
DJ>>appears I am going to have to do all the work myself as Win 95
DJ>>doesn't like my 16 bit mail reader.
Don't have any idea what you're talking about since I'm still on
Windows 3.1 and have been happily using the Silly Little Mail Reader
(DOS) since getting my computer in late 1993.
DJ>>this new toy was supposed to make things faster and easier.
Maybe for the real tekkie types.  For the rest of us I think the
learning curve involved in each upgrade makes things more complex and
slower as well as extremely frustrating at the outset.  Then, by
the time one learns how to use it and develops one's own shortcuts
and workarounds, another upgrade comes along and the cycle begins
again.
I decided long ago that newer isn't necessarily faster and better and
like to stick with what I know well and like using.  For example, I
used my CP/M Kaypro from 1984 until late 1993 when I moved to this
486/33 PC which has not needed any repairs except replacing a bad
monitor while it was still under full warranty. Likewise I'm happily
driving my 1984 Ford LTD Station Wagon with just over 100,000 miles on
my rebuilt motor (the original was damaged in an accident at 126,000
miles in 1993), a valve job a few months ago, and a new air-conditioner
evaporator last week. Still have a lot of original parts on it including
the complete electronic ignition system.  Have only replaced *one*
sensor since buying the vehicle "new" as a demo with 10,000 miles on it
in November 1994.  And I only a few weeks ago finally gave up and junked
my IBM Selectric II Typewriter that I bought in 1977 in favor of a $79
portable electronic Smith Corona for the occasional quickie typing job
(file folder labels, the occasional envelope) when I don't want to turn
on the computer because the cost to repair it this time would have
exceeded the cost of the portable electronic. The previous repair three
years ago was only $43 so I felt it was a justifiable expense.  But $125
this time was not.
                                                Anne Page
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