At 08:23 PM 11/23/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Yes, we have lots of ISPs in Anchorage. How'd
>you know Nome has one, Don?

A professional bird photographer I'm in occasional contact
with cleaned up there photographing last summer. I was checking
the scene out - the ISP has all sorts of links to motel and
auto rentals. Not as bad as you might think, renting a Ford
Explorer costs about as much as renting a car in Hong Kong.
BAD, yes, but at least on the back roads of the pennisula, you
only have to deal with bears, not Hong Kong drivers (who do it
on the left, as though it wasn't already bad enough!).

> I'm still
>being a cheapskate and using my $10/mo.
>Compuserve account, which is fine as long as
>you don't want to surf very much, which if you
>have a slow system like mine you don't. I am
>currently screwing up my courage to make that
>quantum leap to the next level of technology.

Just saw a P166, 16MB, couple gig disk, CD rom, for $699 new this
weekend here in Portland!

OK, folks, back to birds...


- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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