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All MessagePads also come with the capability to send and receive faxes through PC Card or serial modems. This capability is not only an excellent way to communicate with the non-Newton enabled, it can often serve as a makeshift substitute for a printer or scanner.
Reflections on Life Without Newton - TidBITS
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It is a private-equity-type deal, the buyer is a financial buyer, and generally the buyer’s executives show up on the first day after the merger closes and say “we think you’re doing a great job and we have no immediate plans to change anything, we just want you to do it even better.” And then they spend a few months getting the lay of the land and getting to know which managers to trust, and then they start laying people off.
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Pickleball is ideal for snowbird couples looking to befriend their new neighbors, and in the late seventies and the eighties its popularity soared in retirement communities. In 1978, Charlie Penta, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, introduced pickleball to the Villages, a Brooklyn-size retirement hamlet in central Florida. It caught on like wildfire. “As Village snow birds returned home,” one resident devotee observed, “they brought back pickleball and spread it throughout the land.”
Can Pickleball Save America? | The New Yorker
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