[P1] anyone know any good call by call dialup ISPs inCalifornia?

Don Hinkle donhinkle at att.net
Sun Mar 16 11:14:03 PST 2003


It must be fun doing these little evangelistical duties. The response of
the "others" is indeed kind of like most people back in 39 A.D. were
when someone told them about Jesus...stunned disbelief. "Can such things
be?" etc.


Jack Rodgers wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 03:35  PM, Richard J Laue wrote:
> 
> > Later, I ran into the hotel's network guy, and told him I was happily
> > connected.  He absolutely refused to believe me, and we went up to my
> > room for him to see for himself.  When I showed him how easy it was to
> > set up, he was stunned.  He had never used a Mac, and had to admit
> > that he was wrong.
> 
> Thursday I went back to the Sprint store where I bought my Merlin C201
> card after assuring the salesman I knew it would work and agreeing that
> he had done an excellent job of advising me that it wouldn't. We agreed
> that I could bring it back for a full refund when it didn't work.
> 
> I had asked the tech guy to install it on a Windows machine for me and
> he muttered it wouldn't work and that he had done all he was taught how
> to do.
> 
> When I returned, I first showed the sales man how to start the mack and
> then select the Connect item from the phone menu and he was amazed when
> the browser window started displaying a site. He tried a few of his
> favorites (I think he is a hacker).
> 
> Then he called in the tech guy who stood quietly in back watching and
> then left without saying much.
> 
> The Merlin c201 is a PC Card modem working with Sprint that I can use
> anywhere, anytime that I can get a Sprint connection. It works in a PC
> Card slot so it won't work with an ibook.
> 
> ---t



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