Post #33,119
3/22/02 7:53:05 AM
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Because I can...
This is rather silly, but I just have to share with you all the fact I am using the web browser on my Sega Dreamcast to send this message. Sure is tedious using the joystick to enter each chacter!
On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #33,126
3/22/02 9:11:55 AM
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Only $9 to be less silly :-)
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Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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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
-- Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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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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