I inquired about this oft-mentioned service nigh on 3 months ago, and I am happy to report to you that it doth rock.
On a pleasant evening in the month of September, I arrived at a local trading post in order to barter my goods. It so happened that an advertisement for this very service was pinned to the outside of the old door. It made, I thought, a most outrageous claim: "Yea, let it be known that any persons who wish to obtain a service that provides earthly links to the inter-net, to the very ether itself, will receive freely both a printer and a scanner."
After a moment of hesitation, my curiosity overcame my mistrust for what is obviously the result of dabbling in extra-human affairs, if you catch my meaning, and so I signed up for access to this mysterious service.
As promised, the machines for printing and scanning arrived free of charge, and in a timely manner too; I was in my wagon carting them off from the post within a week. I have not removed the scanning device from its packaging, but I have printed many legible words with the other, although I daren't ask what forces guide the clicks and whirs that eminate from within that smoothe gray shell.
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"i knew a lady who came from duluth
bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
she went to her grave just a little too soon
and flew away howlin' on the yellow moon."
~ From the lore of the "Meat Puppets" as told by the now deceased Kurdt Kobain.
[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 12-16-2001).]