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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Feel good you can get 5 – 700K. We are still on Dialup and running 20K – 22K on a good day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Living in the country we are too far out for cable or DSL and too far out for Prairie Inet and with a daughter in grad school Satellite is too expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I was never able to connect to my parallel port printer after I got a new mother board which went out when my power supply fried. It didn’t have a parallel port on it and the card I put in didn’t work and the USB to parallel interface I tried to use didn’t work either. We finally had to get a USB printer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:red'>Murray McKee</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>Operating Systems Engineer</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>Technology Infrastructure Services</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>TPF Systems</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>800 Walnut Street</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>MAC F4030-037</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>Des Moines, IA 50309-3605</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>WORK (515)557-6127 Cell<b> </b>(515) 343-6630 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>FAX (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>515) 557-6046</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>MurrayMcKee@WellsFargo.com</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <br></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>"This message may contain confidential and / or privileged information. 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Thank you for your cooperation."</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>jrnosee<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] Courier V.everythying modem<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Considering my in-law's were still on dialup until about a year or so ago.... Even their DSL only pulls 5-700k...! Although at this point you'd be hard pressed to find a PC let alone a laptop with an RS-232 port it seems.<br><br>There's always a niche for something. I'd almost completely forgotten about dot matrix printers until I just bought a new car. The dealer still printed paperwork on a dot matrix printer since the impact is needed for the duplicate forms they use.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ken MacLeod <<a href="mailto:ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us">ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Is there any value in these modems? I see USR still sells them. I have one<br>> that I used as a part of a router dating back almost 10 years. I'm skeptical<br>> I'm going to find much need for it, especially considering I don't even have<br>> a phone line any more.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>After the recent events in Egypt, you never know. I'll probably keep mine.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug" target="_blank">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>