On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Martin Trautmann wrote: > >>> fax modem? >> >> should you really need such a thing, Apple sells an external modem the >> size of a pack of gum for $30; > > Which one, where? AFAIK all are gone from the store. > > > a while back i got one in a bag of stuff >> at a yard sale for $2 and got it for the sense of readiness it gives me >> (smile), though i have not used a modem for 5 years or so (sent one fax >> maybe three years ago, but used an online service) > > I needed one some weeks ago within vacation, no DSL, no WLAN, but just a > phone line. And fax is still very common for many people.
I do still have a modem on my work notebook, but I doubt if I'll ever use it. The last time I used one (on the previous machine) was at my mother's house, to get internet access (Virgin UK pay-as-you-go). But for my last trip I used a USB cellular modem. This meant I couldn't use it at the house - my mother lived in one of the few cellular dead spots left within 20 miles of London - but I could sit in the pub and get online. A couple of the local pubs even had wireless access points! Our recently-purchased home machine doesn't even have the modem. It would only have added $10 to the cost, but we just didn't see the point. Neither machine, though, has a floppy drive :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
