->  I have an old 486sx20, Toshiba T1900.

->  This thing has 8 megs ram, 750 Meg HD, Monochrome. I recently
->  bought a network card for it, a belkin F5D5020.

->  Currently running MSDOS 6.22 and WFW 3.11. I have
->  novell/dr/caldera dos available.

->  Now, there is absolutely no good reason to put a computer this
->  limited, this slow, on the internet. So, of course, I want to do
->  it.

->  Now, any suggestions for the simplest way? Mostly would do
->  telnet to get Fido, maybe FTP.

My 486 runs WS_FTP and NetTerm for Fido.

NetTerm however is commercial software.
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