[rpeden]

I remember installing an early version of Red Hat on a machine that only had a Winmodem, not a real hardware modem that would just work in Linux.

Getting a Winmodem to work in Linux was possibly, but not exactly easy. I couldn't afford a better modem at the time, so I just kept hacking away at it and booting back into Windows and searching the web to try to figure it out. This was 1996 or so; there was far less information on the web than there is today, and search engines weren't exactly great at finding what you needed.

I think I finally got online from Linux after a week or two. :)