Post #33,186
3/22/02 5:02:26 PM
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So cheap! Still 40bucks or so here
I have a keyboard adapter thing but it doesnt like my keyboard. Still, this is only a temporary measure... I hope!
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #33,276
3/24/02 2:42:42 AM
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...but I thought...
...US$9 was about AU$40...
/duck
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Post #33,301
3/24/02 7:31:07 PM
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Heh, the Australian Cowrie Shell is up!
Last I saw it was around, ooh, a whole 53 cents or so to the US Dollar. Woo!
In other words, yeah, $9 would become $40 - especially after factoring in postage. Good incentive to get the Mac up and running! Still, I set a PC up last night and it promptly made noises of impending Hard Drive explosion. (But it survived long enough for me to back everything up. Yay.)
Some days I just shouldn't play with technology :)
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #33,419
3/25/02 8:02:17 PM
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AU$ = 0.53 USD or US$1 = AU$1.886
[link|http://quote.yahoo.com/m3?u|[link|http://quote.yahoo.com/m3?u|http://quote.yahoo.com/m3?u]] YMMV.
Alex
"Never express yourself more clearly than you think." -- Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
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Post #33,293
3/24/02 4:05:11 PM
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Dreamcast
Does the DC have a pop-up Keyboard on screen like the PalmOS or other systems that don't normally use a keyboard, or do you have to rotate through the alphabet to choose the letter you want?
Surfing via a Dreamcast, much better than using WebTV, right?
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
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Post #33,302
3/24/02 7:35:06 PM
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Pop-up keyboard.
But on DreamKey, the browser I used, it was in abcdef rather than qwerty order, which made things just that bit more tedious than they really needed to be. If there was an option to change the layout I didn't find it.
No idea how it compares to WebTV, probably much of a muchness. Dreamcast modem is only 33.6K so it was never in a great rush.
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #33,318
3/24/02 10:23:26 PM
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Modems 33.6K
Near me, best I can get is 33K or lower. So having one of those 56K modems doesn't help unless I get some divine intervention or the cross-talk clears up in my neighborhood and someone wires a phone line properly?
I am free now, to choose my own destiny.
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Post #33,343
3/25/02 9:34:11 AM
3/25/02 1:59:52 PM
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56K
requires the phone company to be all digital, the path between your phone company and your ISP to be all digital, and finally your ISP must have a digital phone line. The ISP uses special modems to support 56K - that's why you can never get 56K if you direct connect to a friends modem. The only analog conversion allowed for 56K to work is from you to your phone company.
A single analog system between you and your ISP will cause it to drop to 33.6K standards. I cannot get 56K where I live because my phone company has older analog equipment. I'm not concerned though, I've got a cable modem :-)
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Edited by SpiceWare
March 25, 2002, 01:59:52 PM EST
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Post #33,372
3/25/02 1:01:58 PM
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I'm getting 45-48K with my 56 modem
Local telco must have upgraded phone lines recently, I used to get a max of 28.
"I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
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