[Ham-Computers] Help Aaron Or?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Thank you Gary, good idea.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Pewitt" <n9zsv at magtel.com>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>; 
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Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Help Aaron Or?


> Duane, when I had dial up and needed to download the Service pack 2
> for windows XP 64 bit, which is well over 60 megs, I ended up taking
> a USB 2 gig flash card to the public library in our very small town
> of Booneville, Arkansas.  Their computers did not have cd burners but
> did have USB ports.  They had a 1 hour time limit which was just
> enough to download the file from Windows update.
> That was the only way I could do it then as the cd's were no longer
> available for sale and it could only be had by downloading.  I had
> taken some blank cd's along and just happened to include the flash
> card in my briefcase.  Call your library and see if you can do it
> there.  Good luck.  73  Gary  N9ZSV
>
>
>
> At 02:07 PM 5/1/2009, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>
>
>>The blind dude is up to his ear lobes with expiration notifications about
>>his version 7.5 AVG program! Since I have dial-up, and since the AVG V8.5 
>>is
>>60 Meg, and that equates to a download time of about ten hours ... My ISP
>>has a maximum download time before disconnect of ten hours!
>>
>>Aaron? Please download me a copy of the free AVG software, burn it to a CD
>>and get the postal Pigeon to air delivery it to! I am feeling 'really'
>>depressed due to electronic rejection! Since AVG announces to the world 
>>that
>>yours truly is using expired virus protection, etc. My mail is being drop
>>kicked into the binary bit bucket of trash!
>>
>>If one of you feel so moved and want to send me the latest AVG file on a 
>>CD,
>>I would be delighted to pay any and all related costs. Thank you!
>>
>>
>>
>>Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
>>E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
>>Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
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>>
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> Gary Pewitt  N9ZSV   garypewitt at centurytel.net  479 675 4376
> 1500 French Prairie Rd. Booneville, Arkansas  72927
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