Subj : 10 net
To   : TOM WALKER
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 06:43 pm

Hey TOM!

Sep 08 06:52 05, TOM WALKER wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 TW> AND that is WHY thy still make HARDWARE MODEMS.

Yes but not as readily available in this neck of the woods as they seem to be 
there.  The usual suppliers, where locals as a rule shop, don't supply these 
things and are pushing the 'hardware' that is most suitable to what Microsoft 
wants their 'customers' to have.  It has been this way for some time now which 
has forced people like myself to look elsewhere or wait for Microsoft to 
release a new version of Windows so that their customers abandon their older 
hardware (the good stuff) so that I can pick it up for a song, if not for 
nothing other then to take the time to go get it.  I've been operating this way 
for well over a decade now.  I can even find stuff 'new' (ie unused) simply 
because of stock that never got sold and Microsoft doesn't support or never did 
support.

Add to this IBM selling it's PC division and I doubt very much the quality of 
PC's and future peripherals will be of any consequence to people like myself.  
The server market looks vastly more attractive and I see lots of abandonware 
there that can be had for a song.  :-)

 TW> I just walked into the Store and it was on the Shelf with all the 
 TW> rest
 TW> of the Modems. Was'nt HARD at all. And incidently they had HARDWARE
 TW> external Serial Modems from several other companies.

That is different situation then here then.

 TW> As far as pushing the PCI Win Modems as P T Barnum once said  "A FOOL
 TW> and his Money is soon parted"

Exactly.  That is the situation here as far as normal, business as usual, is 
concerned.

Life is good,
Maurice

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