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Neither do the computers I'm working with have Ethernet or USB.

16-bit NICs are $10 apiece, and likely free for the asking from almost any
office's dead PC junk heap.

And I have several. Have you ever made a NIC work with DOS?
If so, I'd sure love to learn how you did it.

Wollongong. Beame and Whiteside. To name two.

But that's going backwards. With one foot in the grave already, you need to
keep moving forward, not back. If it runs DOS, it'll run Linux.



Besides, there's always the fun of doing it, and that much time
difference should even "pay" for the programming effort.

Seems to me your time would be better spent on things with lasting value.
Linux is free....

Linux may be free, but the aftermath of installing Linux would cost
YEARS of effort to "port" the:
801 FORTRAN programs I currently use
225 Pascal programs I currently use
452 DOS .BAT and Norton's DOS .BTM scripts I currently use.

It boots off the CD. I know I mentioned that. It's worth mentioning a second
time. And a third: It boots off the CD. No installing, no configuring...
Just boot it, FTP your files, and get on with whatever it is you're trying
to do.


No, converting to Linux is NOT free, especially at my age!

Yeah, I know just what you mean. About the age thing, that is. Time's
wasting; best get to it.