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Miguel Palacio <[log in to unmask]>
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Miguel Palacio <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:40:13 -0400
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     There is software that enlargers the letters on the computer screen.
I think there is one call 'zoom', and depending on the programs you use
to read the email, they also have a feature somewhere to enlarge the print.
All the browsers have this feature.

                                                      Greetings from Miami!

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Dwight Hall wrote:

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> To All who like me use extreme magnifying glasses to read everything,
> include the screen of your monitor.  When I started using a computer, back
> in 93, I had to rub my monitor with the tip of my nose due to the extreme
> short focal length of my Reading glasses. (1 inch/25 mm)
>
> Well I heard that their was something that the screan gave off that did
> cellular damage to all tissue within about two inches/51 mm of the screen. I
> kept asking the NY.  state Government, US. federal Government, so called
> experts, and just about everyone who would  listen, how I could protect my
> self from this mysterious "Ray."  During this time I would have to stop
> using my computer every few minutes, to clean off the screen, due to it's
> being covered with Blood from the tissue damage to my nose.
>
> Well they never did solve the "Problem." I now have a 1/4"-6.5 mm long &
> wide orator slightly right of center on my nose tip. Well I have by dint of
> much research determined that No "Rays" of consequence are sent from the
> screen. However the monitor screen does produce very strong electromagnetic
> charges.
>
> These are much like static electromagnetic charges. So I tried just
> completely whipping the screen with a soft paper towel, for about thirty
> seconds at the startup of each use of the computer. It works, My nose is now
> slowly healing, and there is no more pain, or bleeding.  Try it, it works.
>
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> Dwight
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>
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> On         Sat, 26 Jun 1999 03:03:58 +0000, Diana Dawne wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone.  A few weeks ago, someone posted information on using a
> > caller id modem with caller id.  I had tried this in the past, without
> > success, but I again ordered it, and again, I can't get it to work
> > correctly although it works fine with a caller id box.  I am using telix
> > and I have a newcomb modem.  I used the at command at#cid=1.  When I put
> > that at command in, the modem says ok.  I have tried 0 1 and 2 and it
> says
> > ok but if I put in 3, it says error.  Does anyone have any idea of
> > anything else I could do?  I also changed my baud setting but that made
> no
> > difference.
> >
> > Diana
> >
> >
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