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On Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:47:24 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2020-10-28, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I had an old desktop which during a lightning storm ended up with a |
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> > blown PSU and a blown winmodem. The winmodem was unrepairable, but |
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> > the PSU survived following the replacement of a single capacitor. |
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> All Winmodems were 100% unrepairable fresh off the assembly line. |
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> Grant |
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Heh! I recall horror stories of compiling linmodem to get it to work and |
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every other version would fail to initialize the modem leaving me with no |
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Internet connection. Yes, the good old days, you know - when sometimes in the |
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evenings we would actually read ... books. LOL! |
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