Connecting a 286 DOS PC to the Internet Through a Serial Connection… in 2019

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Adam Pachulski
May 13, 2019
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Connecting a 286 DOS PC to the Internet Through a Serial Connection… in 2019
Recently, I’d repaired an old PC which I’d had since my childhood. The machine in question was a Compaq Portable III, released in 1987, with a stunning 640 KB of RAM and a 286 CPU.
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