🚀 go-pugleaf

A couple of things for you all to ponder:

1. (more disa really, but since largely the same people read both groups
and the next thing is more of a 'tech' thing...) I have a friend (with
Amiga) who is getting connected to the 'net for the first time. At the
moment he only has a 2400(!!) baud modem so obviously this is a bit slow
for anything except basic email and also it's proving fairly troublesome
to get working for whatever reason. (I'm not convinced that PPP is
altoether very happy on such a slow link).  Anyway, as a result, I was
wondering if anyone had an 14k4 modem lying around in the cupboard that
they weren't using any more and who would be willing to sell it for a
reasonable price, as my friend would be interested (14k4 because he
doesn't have a lot of money to throw around, and it's an acceptable basic
speed for what he wants [very light net usage, mainly email] even if a
bit slow by today's standards)

2. Am I right in thinking that it's possible to get an IDE splitter cable
for an A1200 which will let you connect two *2.5"* hard drives, one
configured as master and the other as slave, to the internal IDE port?  If
so, can anyone suggest a good (=cheap) place to get them from? (I've not
looked in detail, but so far I've failed to spot any in the adverts I've
looked at).  It doesn't need to be a long lead, it's only for occasional
use so I'll probably just take the lid off and stack the 2 HD's on top of
one another with an insulator in between.


Cheers.


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