Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-10-29, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
>
>> Heh!  I recall horror stories of compiling linmodem to get it to work and 
>> every other version would fail to initialize the modem leaving me with no 
>> Internet connection.  Yes, the good old days, you know - when sometimes in 
>> the 
>> evenings we would actually read ... books.  LOL!
> I even tried to avoid plug-in-card modems in favor of external modems
> with a full set of LEDs and an RS-232C port.  I've probably still got
> one in a closet somewhere...
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I got a couple of those.  No idea if they still work tho.  One I had was
a high dollar one back in its day.  It had a lot of dip switches on the
bottom to change how it worked. 

Oh the dial-up days.  May we never see them again.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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