[ale] Needed, will pay cash for: Portmaster 2E and Modem Rack full of Modems.

[aaron]

I'm not sure anyone has been sitting on cacti here.
Georgia doesn't have the climate to grow Cholla. ;-)

No offense was taken to any of the comments.
Yes, I could have looked up the exact exchange
rate pricing, but chose to leave that to anyone
who might have had an interest in the suggested
USB Modem device.

A Google on "robotics USB modem" shows that the
USD suggested retail looks to be $55. Units are
available for a little less at some stores:

http://www.nulime.com/U-S-Robotics-5637-56K-USB-Modem/p273583

peace
(in the spirit of the season)
aaron



On 2008, Dec, 24, , at 10:30 AM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Jeff Lightner wrote:
>> You saw something hostile in what I wrote?
>>
>> It wasn't intended that way.  Perhaps the burr is up your butt rather
>> than mine.
>
> "You don't need to guess."
>
> Was unnecessary for getting your point across. Certainly:
>
> "There are several online currency converters."
>
> Was sufficient???
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Geoffrey
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:33 PM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Needed, will pay cash for: Portmaster 2E and Modem
>> Rack full of Modems.
>>
>> Jeff Lightner wrote:
>>> There are several online currency converters.  You don't need to
>> guess.
>>
>> I'm well aware.  I responded with what I had without doing the  
>> research
>> for him, which I know he's perfectly capable.  Burr up your butt??
>>
>>
>>> A Google search will find them for you.   In fact I think one of
>>> Google's own tools does conversion but wouldn't swear to it.
>>
>> You don't have to swear, just go to their site and check it out...
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Geoffrey
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:04 PM
>>> To: ale at ale.org
>>> Subject: Re: [ale] Needed, will pay cash for: Portmaster 2E and  
>>> Modem
>>> Rack full of Modems.
>>>
>>> aaron wrote:
>>>> I saw that U.S. Robotics recently released a handy
>>>> and tiny "self" powered USB modem.  The price may
>>>> still be a problem, though.  What's 39 pounds
>>>> sterling in USD?
>>> Last I checked, about 1.5, thus ~$60, although with the current
>> economic
>>> climate, it could be $120..
>>>
>>>> peace
>>>> aaron
>>>>
>>>> On 2008, Dec, 23, , at 9:59 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Ed Landa wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone got a working decent Lucent Portmaster 25,
>>>>>>> cables and matching rack full of analog modems left over
>>>>>>> from the pre-T1/PRI days that they would want to sell?
>>>>>> I have a bunch of PM3s with modem cards, if using a T1 or PRI
>>>>>> instead of
>>>>>> POTS would fit in your model.  You could have one for next to
>>>>>> nothing.
>>>>> Yeah.. that's my problem, I need to support genuine old fashioned
>>>>> POTS.
>>>>> T1/E1/PRI is -not- available. This is going to a place aspiring to
>>>>> be part of the 3rd world.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm eBaying.. currently.. poking around. I hate eBay.
>>>>>
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>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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