[rescue] looking for a Multia

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Aug 12 11:14:15 CDT 2003


On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>>> Frankly, I hate to say this, but when it comes to certain 
>>> peripherals,
>>> PCs seem to be somewhat ahead of Suns.  Although, the Octanes serial
>>> ports look the best of all (but, I believe it has no parallel port).
>>
>>   Eh!  Dude, serial ports are for console terminals.  Ethernet and 
>> FDDI
>> interfaces are for network connectivity.  Remember? ;)
>
> And those of us stuck with dialup for awhile (see other email for what
> hope this is of escaping eventually)?  It's not like all of us can
> afford the sort of connectivity you have (if I could afford the monthly
> fees, I suspect that installation would kill me).

   Dude.  Even something like [gasp, puke] a CABLE MODEM is cheap these 
days.  $50/mo?  You probably pay more than that for your water bill.  
And you use connectivity more than you use water.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
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