May 1998
Beginner
1128 pages
30h 26m
English
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Chapter 26. Getting Started with Modem Communications
IN THIS CHAPTER
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
—Michel de Montaigne
These days, the de rigueur accessory for PC fashion plates is the modem. Everyone, it seems, is flocking online like so many swallows to Capistrano. The Internet, of course, is the Big Thing, but folks are connecting to commercial services, bulletin boards, and other online locales in record numbers. And we're not talking only about the extroverts of the world, such as ...