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How much can Dial Up Internet cost? 8K a month.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Apr 28, 2015 12:48PM PDT

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150428-column.html

I'm sure other folk rarely check their setup.
Bob

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Ah...yes...dialing long distance

by Steven Haninger Apr 28, 2015 6:41PM PDT

My guess is that is setup was done through some floppy disk he got in the mail that had a list of phone numbers. Perhaps it had a fall-back feature to move on to other numbers as earlier local numbers failed or were terminated.

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