[Cialug] Courier V.everythying modem

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

Feel good you can get 5 - 700K.  We are still on Dialup and running 20K - 22K on a good day.

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.

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.

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of jrnosee
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:08 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Courier V.everythying modem

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.

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.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ken MacLeod <ken at bitsko.slc.ut.us<mailto:ken at bitsko.slc.ut.us>> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org<mailto:newz at bearfruit.org>> wrote:
> Is there any value in these modems? I see USR still sells them. I have one
> that I used as a part of a router dating back almost 10 years. I'm skeptical
> I'm going to find much need for it, especially considering I don't even have
> a phone line any more.
After the recent events in Egypt, you never know.  I'll probably keep mine.
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