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Looking for a productive gift for someone who owns one of the popular Hewlett-Packard personal laser printers? H-P's ingenious LaserJet Companion for LaserJet 4L, 5L, or 6L printers. The Companion contains a fax-modem device and black-and-white scanner. Plug it in between your computer and printer, instantly adding basic fax, photocopy and document imaging, capabilities to your system. The Companion costs about $220 via mail-order...
Dahl, an elegant woman accustomed to a rich social life, was at first unnerved by her newfound solitude. She tried to telecommute, exchanging E-mail and collaborating on academic work via the Internet, but her fax and modem overloaded her rural phone line, requiring 20 visits from the repairman before the problem was solved. She and Rice learned that there was no fine dining in the area, and that cooking well for guests meant packing in provisions from Cincinnati or Columbus. When Dahl went to the local grocery and asked for pasta, she was directed to a shelf of boxed...
...buggies, is a downtown meeting place and festival site. Nice mix of old and new: John's Butcher Shop uses 500 meat lockers to store food for the Amish, who shun electricity at home; sports agent Mark Simpson, who lives here, shows his clients the money via fax or modem...
...prices are so low that you can get a 180-MHz Pentium-compatible system with a fast modem, huge hard drive, lots of memory, multimedia equipment and a decent monitor for less than $1,000--prices never seen for comparably priced equipment in industry history...
Sometimes, though, good things come in bad diskettes. When AOL crashed for 19 hours last August, Cassell wrote a takeoff of the classic Don McLean tune, which he titled Bye, Bye Amer'ca Online. ("So bye bye to Amer'ca Online/ Drove my modem to a domain and it's working just fine./ And good old geeks are cheering users offline/ Saying this'll be the day that they die.") Like most amusing online spore, it flew around the Net, causing a number of people to E-mail Cassell their thanks. One of them became Cassell's live-in girlfriend...