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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem on XT class computer
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 10:55:05 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4jkm4a$12i@ionews.ionet.net>, lepinef@ionet.net says...
- >
- >I want to put a modem in an XT class computer so my wife can get her
- >e-mail of our local ISP. Everything I look at says "386 or higher". I
- >think this is for the benefit of the bundled software but ain't quite
- >sure.
- >
- >So, am I spitting in the wind or is putting in a modem a "no-brainer".
- >I understand that I'd have to use some DOS based comm software but
- >that shouldn't really be a problem. (Or is it.... hmmmm, my version of
- >trumpet is windows based.... maybe more trouble than it's worth....)
- >
- >Any suggestions?
-
- new motherboards with cpus are really inexpensive these days.. anyways
- you should be able to use dos based termainal software to log on the
- shell account and telnet out of there if you hafto to get email
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