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Subject: [OM] Re: One thing done, another begun
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:12:17 -0400
Must be a Dell 'innovation'.

I just checked and an HP Athlon 64 x2 based system still has a
parallel port in addition to 2 x PS/2 (on back).  Oh, and a mess o'
USB ports.

FWIW/ScottGee1



On 4/21/06, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the people who make cars were as incompetent as the ones who build 
> computers, the roads would be clogged with horse shit, because we'd all have 
> a couple in the back yard -- horses, not computers.  New, gee-whiz super 
> computer, and no f***ing parallel port!  Looks like I'm behind the times.  
> Again.  Am I the only one with still working, perfectly good old printers?  
> And only two USB ports in the back?  That's enough for mouse and keyboard, 
> but what about Epson and Minolta scanners and a pair of Epson printers, 
> particularly the 2200, all of which need these things?  I can plug the E-1 or 
> E-330, et al, into the front when I need to update the firmware every once in 
> a blue moon, but I don't want to have to play musical ports with all the 
> other stuff that's used regularly.
>
> Fortunately, since I told them to hold the TV card -- who the hell watches TV 
> on a computer anyway? -- there's a couple of open expansion slots.  I'll go 
> out very speedily one day next week in my intelligently-designed, now 510HP 
> SSR and see what I can find at CompUSA or some similar geeky place.  :-)
>
> Jeez!
>
> Olde Pharte Walther
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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