” Years ago, back around 99, I sometimes dialed in with an old Toshiba laptop, running Win98. It was a Pentium running at 75Mhz with 16 meg of core and a 300 meg hard drive, on a 28.8 modem. “
Oh - a “Johnnie-Come-Lately”, huh??
I started out with an old 286 running WIN 3.1, dialing into local BBS’s (ya got the mimeographed list of dial-in numbers from your favorite hole-in-the-wall computer store) on a state-of-the-art 2400 (external) Modem....
Sometimes I miss those simpler days.....
Been there, dun that. But a plain text mode BB running sith senddata/rcvdata on a dedicated line is a big difference from TCPIP, graphics, and DHCP! Heck I was dialing in to work computers in the early 80’s.