[Coco] WOHEE-HAA!

[Gene Heskett]

wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
> As do I, though the month I started my year as a pump jockey regular gas was $.309 (Sep 72).  The following summer it went up a bit.  (OPEC crisis #1)
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> Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
> 
> Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.  Denis Diderot
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>> The saga continues;
>>
>> The first cable modem that I had on hand passed it's self tests, but would
>> not do Ethernet.  So we went to Wal-mart and got a gateway router and cable
>> modem.  The router turned out to have been used and someone had set the
>> security password, so I was unable to administer it's settings.  One more
>> trip to Wal-mart.  Then yesterday we came home to find both router and cable
>> modem dark and evidence of a power outage.  All of the UPSs showed no
>> problems.  The quick tests had me looking at the power supplies.  Lo and
>> behold, both power supplies were dead.  Yet another trip to Wal-mart, and of
>> course another call to customer service to register the new MAC address.
>>
>> I will say that, when it works, it works nice.  Now I'm off to check
>> CoCo3-dot-com for the latest on my favorite computer and yahoo to adjust
>> some settings.
>>
>> As to the price of gas?  I remember 29 cent gas.  So when did it drop?  ;)
>>
>> Bruce W.
>>
>>
>>> From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>>>> I convinced the wife that the crappy dial-up connection was costing more
>> in
>>>> side trips to town to download files than a cable connection would cost.
>>>>
>>> Keep an eye on her, the price of gas has dropped.
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>>> Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
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Humm, I could have sworn you were older than that Ward.  part-time 
member of the committee that invented dirt, just like me...

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Cheers, Gene