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Monday, November 6th, 2006 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI can see that my next project is going to take more time than I thought it would. My shiny, newly rebuilt PC has no 9-pin parallel ports, they being antiaunt and of grim antiquitee. Normally I wouldn’t care, but I have an art pad that uses a 9-pin port and having seen the cost of a new art tablet, I have decided that the only answer is to purchase an adapter as mentioned yesterday (and allowing for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
phil99’s warning). The difference is over £200 for a new pad, or about £12 for an adapter.
That will be a trip to Tottenham Court Road at some point, then, seeing as there is nowhere close to Victoria that sells anything useful like that.
In the meantime, in addition to telling me that I am using a pirated version of XP, which I had fixed, the damned thing has started asking for random internet connections when I am already on-line, on a random sampling of urls. I don’t know why, but it is annoying and distracting. Still, it is faster, quieter and actually working, which is a marked step up from where I was before!.
phil99’s warning). The difference is over £200 for a new pad, or about £12 for an adapter.That will be a trip to Tottenham Court Road at some point, then, seeing as there is nowhere close to Victoria that sells anything useful like that.
In the meantime, in addition to telling me that I am using a pirated version of XP, which I had fixed, the damned thing has started asking for random internet connections when I am already on-line, on a random sampling of urls. I don’t know why, but it is annoying and distracting. Still, it is faster, quieter and actually working, which is a marked step up from where I was before!.