>Ed,
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>Well I have one of these @#§¢§%$# printers at home and was tempted several times to throw it out of the window. Actually not because it's a GDI printer, but because of the annoying feature "grab all the sheets at once in order to be sure to create a paper jam each time".
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>Can we change the subject pls? ;-)
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>>Just be glad I can't accelerate an HP1100 to a significant fraction of the speed of light, or I'd be shelling you from space with them...

Sure, would you prefer to talk about WinModems, video cards that rely on some amount of the system memory rather than video RAM of some sort, or the joys of flakey power line?