I hadn't heard them termed that way until a few years ago. Like you, I thought, "Are they going to squeeze a rubber bulb and shoot the stuff into their mouths?"

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I'm kind of getting an Amway vibe here.

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It's the exact same thing as a flute.

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If I could tell my head, "Stop that. It's illegal", and it actually works..

This is a law I could get behind.

Last year was Dom Perignon 2001. This is why pouring it down the sink makes us flinch. :)

Sidekick and I have a ritual every anniversary that involves lighting our unity candle and drinking the best champagne we can get our hands on. She seldom finishes one pipette and it ends with, "That cost a fortune. I'd hate to pour it down the drain.". Leaving me to have to finish off the entire bottle.

If that's champagne, I'm very jealous.

I do have a Ethernet adaptor and associated DOS drivers but it is PCI. I was using it to do that app.net DOS client.

I have the subsystem to the point than DNS, FTP and TELNET work.

But man oh man…what a trial talking a guy through getting that up and running over the phone.

I am now kicking myself a little because last year, I threw out all of the floppies we had in stock along with the Travan tapes. They were just sitting in the storeroom under a mountain of dust.

If his computer is old enough to have children of it's own, how old do you suppose those floppies are?