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- From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
- Subject: Re: [Not-so-] Cheap modems from Prodigy
- In-Reply-To: lancer@wpi.WPI.EDU's message of Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:54:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <ZOWIE.92Aug27023244@daedalus.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Stanford Center for Space Science and Astrophysics
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 02:32:44
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- Stephe Lewis Foskett <lancer@wpi.WPI.EDU> writes:
- Prodigy and a company called Tech Advantage are offering, for $39.95:
- * a 2400 bps internal modem
- * a month of PRODIGY (yay)
- * some modem software
-
- So what's so cool about this? I don't know. I don't know these people, I
- just wanted a cheap modem...
-
- I don't know either.
-
- At least one company, Telemarket, is offering a 2400bps IBM compatible
- internal modem for $25, complete with `some modem software'. More than
- half-a-dozen companies are selling internal 2400s and software for under $35.
- Given the poor quality and admin-fascist nature of the PRODIGY (dis)service,
- I wouldn't call a month of PRODIGY a (yay) item at _any_ price, even $4...
- --
- Craig DeForest: zowie@banneker.stanford.edu *or* craig@reed.bitnet
-
- "So, if you guys make a living looking at the SUN, why do you spend so much
- time at the SYNCHROTRON, working UNDERGROUND at NIGHT?"
-