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As a kid, I used to lug around hand trucks full of the punch cards when he rented cpu time on saturdays & sundays. I was psyched when IBM came out with the 5110, which used the 11" floppy's.

Even better was the 8088's because for his product demo's I could carry 3 small packages instead of the 1 huge all-in-one machine. besides, formatting disks took 1 or 2 minute, compared to the 10-60 minutes on the 5110.

BTW, you sure do run nice graphics, etc. for an 8088, what kind of fuel do you put in it?

BTW, you sure do run nice graphics, etc. for an 8088, what kind of fuel do you put in it?

Oh, this newfangled MS-DOS 3 is surprisingly robust. <|:)~

BTW, you sure do run nice graphics, etc. for an 8088, what kind of fuel do you put in it?

You don't need graphics to read and reply to Free Republic. I do most of my surfing with Lynx, a text browser. It's amazing how fast the Web is when you don't have to deal with graphics and pop-ups. The main downside is that some web sites are impossible to use without graphics because they hide navigation and text behind graphics (which are not properly labelled with an "ALT" tag), a plug-in, or an applet.

If you can find an ISP that provides an old-style "shell" or terminal server dial-up or can find a TCP/IP stack and a telnet program for the OS in question, you should be able to surf with some pretty ancient hardware.