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To: David Lawrence who wrote (12966)	2/22/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Another Heaven's Gate suicide news.com And no, I can not see behind the comet from my vantage point. o~~~ O

To: David Lawrence who wrote (12966)	2/22/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

56K Standard's a Yawner From the start it has been a war only an engineer could love, this whole 56K brouhaha. According to one theory, 3Com hoped to bankrupt the rest of the modem business by stalling a standard at the last ITU meeting in September. If that was 3Com's plan, it worked to a certain extent. Vendors like Boca Research and Zoom Telephonics bled red ink during the 56K transition, while Motorola put its modem unit up for sale and Logicode was forced out of business. techweb.cmp.com o~~~ O

To: David Lawrence who wrote (12966)	2/22/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

You remember that pilot horror story I told you guys about when my pilot bit the big one? Well...have you ever seen the Six Million Dollar Man? TV show? You know, the dude who fell into a million pieces when he took a wrong turn going mach 12?<G> He got put back together again, but much better the second time around. Well, my Six Million Dollar Pilot (actually it's more like $60 pilot VBG>) has been given a second chance...better and stronger than ever before. 1st, the screen is fixed. 2nd, I took my old 1 meg memory card that I had saved when I shipped my old pilot 1000 to 3Com for an upgrade to a backlit PalmPilot-Pro. I took a blow torch (really) and heated up the old memory board until the chips (2 512K memory chips, and an AND gate) fell off it. I then soldered the chips on the back of the existing palm-pro memory board, and lo-and-behold I got me a 2 Meg palm pro (and I have it 75% full already!) pipeline.com I then got tired of putting in new batteries every other week, so I bought some rechargables. The neat part is that the batteries really never need recharging in the sense of removing them and installing them in a charger. I built a solar panel! pipeline.com pipeline.com For those who are interested in the components: pipeline.com pipeline.com I have been very pleased with the results. The panel slides over the pilot and doubles as a screen protector (no more cracked screens <G>). The batteries (must be NImH, not nicads) will charge in a couple hours on a totally overcast day next to a window. I have never put it in direct sunlight...the heat may not be so good for the pilot/batteries. The panel is regulated to avoid overcharging. Pretty cool dweeb-project, no?