Reading about the Toshiba laptop reminds me of my own, a 1600, which works
very well, thank you. I'm writing from my notebook right now, though:
My e-mail server at the county library has agreed to extend my account
thru May 2000 in light of the fact that I serve the community. Good
thing.
Yesterday, I again noticed my late dad's old modem, hooked up to his Tandy
1000; I'd already thought I might try using it but figured it probably
wouldn't be any faster than the 1600's internal modem. He bought a Pentium
monster not long before he died, which is the computer my mom'll use if
she ever gets around to it, so that modem was sitting completely idle as
was the Tandy 1000. I borrowed that modem, a Forval something, and it
turned out it's pretty zippy, at least 9600 baud.
I hooked up that modem to my Toshiba 1600 and--BAM ZIP ZIP ZIP--much
better than the 2400 baud I was running. Then I tried hooking it up to
the notebook, and I copied the software from the Toshiba. Now I'm using
the notebook exactly the way I use the laptop, but I haven't found any
suitable software in the Windows labyrinth of the notebook, so I'm running
ancient software on a late-model 'puter, LOL.
I couldn't even qualify for Juno Basic e-mail before. Now I think I WILL
be able to hook up with Juno Basic, and I've ordered their disk. Do you
think Juno Basic will be as practical to use as PINE? PINE's the server's
software at the library; it has a friendly, i.e., straightforward, and
versatile interface. I might try Juno and find I'd rather stick with the
library 'til May 2000, LOL.
Retiarius Zogreso (aka JPS)
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