* Crossposted from: COMMS (Fidonet)

I went to buy a new computer, and found when I looked at the documentation
that it had been fitted with a Bill Gates Mickey mouse modem, that only works
under Windows.

I asked them to replace it with a real modem, and they then said that they
could only give me an external modem.

I don't really want an external modem - for one thing, they are more
expensive, and for another thing I don't want yet another rat's nest of wires
on my desk.

But is what they say true?

That one can no longer get internal modems - only ther Mickey Mouse ones that
only work with Bill Gate's software?

I want to run a BBS under OS/2, and perhaps later under Linux, and so I see no 
point in buying a crippled modem.

What do other people who use OS/2 or Linux or even DOS do?

Does everyone nowadays have external modems?

Keep well,

Steve Hayes
E-mail: methodius@bigfoot.com
        shayes@dunelm.org.uk
   WWW: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm

... BBSs for genealogy: http://www.geocities.com/7783/bbs1.htm

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