John Payson wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, current disk price is $0.05 per meg and falling rapidly.
> >
> > 81 K of attachments is taking up "valuable space" worth $$0.00396 (US).
 Thats
> > right, 4 tenths of a cent. Significant? You decide.
>
> With a 14.4K modem, 71K of data will take over two minutes to transfer.
> Not a huge amount, but enough to be irksome; over long distance, that could
> easily cost $0.10 or more (e.g. calling from Monroe, WI to the nearest ISP
> in Madison, WI).  Nothing to break the bank, but irksome nonetheless.

I think some perspective is in order here... To bicker about a few cents
when the information you receive is worth much more, doesn't make sense.
The
advice and ideas flying around are priceless.

Those 14.4 modems belong in museums...

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Tjaart van der Walt
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