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My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by preludeofme to c/pcmasterrace

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Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, software modem.

So if you bogged your system in any way while doing anything online, you'd DC in a heartbeat.

Additionally, the software part was buggy and prone to getting tainted beyond repair.

Driver updates also often borked everything.

And replacing the modem was only 50/50 going to fix your issues with it, so until the internet developed a driver cleaner tool specifically for the USR Softmodem, you often had to reinstall Windows to actually fix the issues.

[–] AtariDump 1 points 11 months ago

I remember launching Netscape Navigator Gold was PAINFULLY slow with a software modem.