Subj : Networking modems
To   : George White
From : Dorothy Denn
Date : Wed Jul 26 2000 06:37 am

         Date:  21-Jul-00
      Subject:  Networking modems

Hi George,

 DD>> A friend of mine (and Richards') is looking at making me
 DD>> some sort of switch box, that might do it. So I'm hoping:-))
 GW> Quite possible - I could build a basic one for you very easily
 GW> and fairly cheaply. It does mean an extra cable though...

That would have been very kind of you.  My problem, as always is getting
these things fitted, being in a wheelchair has its drawbacks. At the
moment I am having trouble with a broken writer, and when I'm told to
"take of the cover and disconnect the SCSI cable unscrew the card"  and
all that sort of thing I go and hide beneath the bed :-))

 DD>> I've heard a lot about OS/2, but never really understood it.
 DD>> Though in my BBS Chat echo, someone was saying "what a pity about
 DD>> OS/2" whatever that meant.
 GW> A pity that IBM have given up on it as a consumer product - the
 GW> MS conditions imposed on developers to get early access to
 GW> information essential for product development meant that very few
 GW> developers could produce OS/2 versions of their products. It's
 GW> supported for the next seven years, then it becomes yet another
 GW> dead product.

Without going back to check, I believe my sysop was saying he runs his
Board on OS/2 without any problems.

 GW> A pity as technically it is in many ways far in advance of
 GW> anything MS have produced to date.

Can one have it on the same computer as Windows?

 GW> A pity as there is one less alternative to Windows and it's
 GW> never-ending cycle of costly bug fixes (MS calls them new
 GW> versions...).

Isn't there another one out now?

Regards.

Dotty

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