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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2020-10-29, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Heh! I recall horror stories of compiling linmodem to get it to work and |
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>> every other version would fail to initialize the modem leaving me with no |
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>> Internet connection. Yes, the good old days, you know - when sometimes in the |
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>> evenings we would actually read ... books. LOL! |
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> I even tried to avoid plug-in-card modems in favor of external modems |
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> with a full set of LEDs and an RS-232C port. I've probably still got |
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> 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 |
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a high dollar one back in its day. It had a lot of dip switches on the |
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bottom to change how it worked. |
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Oh the dial-up days. May we never see them again. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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