Jordi Carceller (jordicr(a)eic.ictnet.es) wrote: Sort of in the spirit of this list, I set up this configuration for Internet e-mail: - 8 MHz 80286 AT clone desktop - 4 Meg RAM (all the SIP sockets are filled) - 20 Meg Seagate ST-225 MFM hard disk (C) - 30 Meg Seagate ST-238R RLL hard disk (D) running from its own RLL controller stolen from an XT clone my brother-in-law tossed my way. I had a lot of fun getting it to work in the AT clone. - Trident super VGA video - DOS 6, Windows 3.1 (barely fits on C). - older Trumpet Winsock (version 2.something) - Eudora e-mail (was using version 1.44, now using Eudora Light version 3.01 which is slower, but has a feature I needed that 1.44 didn't have). - 2400 bps US Robotics Courier external modem (that I paid $700 for new in 1985!) With this, we can do e-mail, and text-based internet stuff (I've got Windows telnet and ftp programs as well), but graphic web browsing is out (they all require a 386 or better). I haven't found a text, Windows-based web browser. I've also used Nettamer. It is a DOS-based internet package. To run internet stuff in DOS, you usually need to put together several pieces of software: TCP/IP, PPP or SLIP dialler, packet drivers, etc. Nettamer does all this in one package and does e-mail, ftp, telnet, Usenet, and web browsing. Web browsing is basically text-only, but you can view graphics with an included viewer if you've got a VGA display. The version I tried (1.07) doesn't do frames or image-maps, and forms are a bit brutal. For example, I've used the Altavista search form with it, but I'd probably be pretty confused if I hadn't used the form in Netscape on another computer beforehand. You should be able to find Nettamer on Simtelnet and other software archives. So, you will probably want to use Nettamer instead of the Windows route unless: - you've got a decent amount of RAM (4 meg was quite a lot for a 286) - you've got enough hard disk space - you have to have a GUI. Right now, we just use the e-mail, when we absolutely have to have graphic web browsing, we'll buy a new Pentium machine. Or maybe I'll find a 386 motherboard for free... Hope this helps, Clark Geisler