[Tell It Right]

I was called to help family and friends out many times before Windows 95's plug-n-play to help people figure out COM and IRQ settings to use for their new modem cards, and how to put the settings into BIOS, just so they could get on the "new" internet thing.

The same "new" internet that I'd been using for years, especially if you count the BBS days of boards used by hobby and professional programmers to share coding ideas. And as a computer science student I'd use Hyperterminal to run the VI editor on the school's UNIX box to tweak the homework assignment I'd made run on my Borland C++ to make sure it'd work fine on UNIX. (This was before I learned how to dual-boot in DOS or Linux.)

And yes, I'd have family members pick up the phone line and bump me off my slow as Christmas Hyperterminal session. LOL

[Phillyred]

I remember cursing when someone would call and kick me off the internet