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Tom Potts wrote: > When I was a kid... > I used a thing that allowed you to plug two modems into each other and > effectively connect so you could pretend to be an ISP or whatever. > Anyone seen one about anywhere? > Its either that or diving into the box from hell* for my parallel cable and > PPP ing down that... I wanted one of those when I was messing with serial cables all those years ago (when laptops annoyingly all came with modems but not with network cards). I didn't know there was such a thing though. > * does anyone know why a box of cables, left completely undisturbed, turns > into a Gordian knot no matter how you pack them? Because inevitably someone picks up all-but-one of the loops of a cable. Wire ties- worth their weight in gold- not that they weigh much. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html