A Fax/Modem card is kind of nice if your DSL happens to go out for a day and you'd like to still have some internet connectivity. Obviously you're not going to be streaming video to it with that, but it's better than no connectivity at all. Most DSL providers have an option to get an emergency dial up account or include it, at least mine does (Pacbell).
You got me on the ps/2 ports though...maybe it's just a motherboard they use in a lot of systems to cut down costs which hasn't been truly redesigned in a while.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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A Fax/Modem card is kind of nice if your DSL happens to go out for a day and you'd like to still have some internet connectivity. Obviously you're not going to be streaming video to it with that, but it's better than no connectivity at all. Most DSL providers have an option to get an emergency dial up account or include it, at least mine does (Pacbell).
You got me on the ps/2 ports though...maybe it's just a motherboard they use in a lot of systems to cut down costs which hasn't been truly redesigned in a while.