07-01-14 07:45 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: I Learned Something   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <53B331BC.12998.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
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    EV>I decided not to keep the UPS powered ON to keep those two devices   
    EV>active.   
      
    TW> thati s the difference. Currnelty my Electrical service is so   
    TW> dependable I do not have the need for a UPS   
      
   Howdy! Tom,   
      
   The Generating Station is close by and I can see the two smokestacks   
   from here.   
      
   B4 getting the UPS I would experience a small power interruption every   
   month at least one or two times.   
      
   Which call to mind one day I was using the Commodore 64 which wasn't   
   connected to the UPS and the wife walked out of my room and by habit   
   flipped the Light Switch OFF, and then back ON when she noticed my room   
   got dark.   
      
   That Switched Outlet is the one the C=64 uses and I next saw   
   "38911 Bytes Free" on my TV screen, so I reloaded the Program I was   
   using and finished doing what I was doing on the C=64.   
      
   Long ago I had learned to Save what I was doing on the C=64 at least   
   every 15 Minutes due to the irregular power interruptions I have here   
   so I didn't suffer any real inconvience when that happened.   
      
   Later I got a Extension Cord and plugged it in a spare output on the   
   UPS so that won't happen to me again.   
   I've had a UPS on my Desktop computers long before I got this XP box,   
   I just never thought to have the C=64 connected to it.   
      
    EV>I'm still with AT&T DSL.   
    EV>Just read a note on my latest bill from them and the price is going up   
    EV>2 bucks to $30something.   
      
    TW> My Cable Internet costs $46.99 but for that I get 5700 kbit/s   
    TW> where as the best DSL avilable in my area was 750 kbit/s. I   
    TW> thought the $15 extra was worth it. I am forced to have Cable   
    TW> TV because since they went digital I can only can get 2 of the   
    TW> 7 Local over the air channels   
      
   I remember You writing about that happening.   
   I'm close to most of the TV Stations Transmitter Sites.   
   I still get "Frame?" Pauses on my TV when the Wind Blows real hard.   
      
    EV>I don't want cable broadband, I was eating at Mr. Gattie Pizza   
    EV>yesterday and saw something on the Cartoon Network TV Channel that   
    EV>troubled me, so I'm not interested in my money paying for all of the   
    EV>other stuff that they send down that coaxial cable.   
      
    TW> That is a big problem with me. Even with the Minimum requited   
    TW> package I get some stuff I have no interet in at all being   
    TW> mostly a national network watcher.   
      
   There aren't any more TV Stations that I can tune in but because they   
   each have several 'DOT' Channels there is a larger selection of shows   
   to watch.   
      
   And one of the 'DOT' channels shows a WX Radar on it, which I've always   
   enjoyed seeing when I visited someones home that had Cable TV there, so   
   to me that is a Plus, but for where You live that doesn't matter as   
   much as the weaker signal reception that Digital TV has compared to   
   what a Analog TV was/is and You can't receive most of the stations now.   
      
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