[Ham-Computers] What ISP for an Old Computer

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Jim,

I can't help with an ISP suggestion (only two I'm familiar with are 
AOL/Compuserve and Roadrunner) but why don't you post what kind of RAM the machine 
takes.  Someone on here may have some lying around that they would donate.  I 
thought I had some older stuff but I couldn't find it in either of the two drawers 
where it used to be (really need to clean out those drawers!).

In a message dated 10/6/2004 12:03:58 PM Central Daylight Time, 
hro5-2 at cox.net writes: 
> I'm helping an impoverished friend get on the net.  He has a donated old 
> computer, an ACER with only 24 megs of ram.  Unfortunately, at least 32 
> megs of ram is needed for all ISP' s we have checked, aside from possibly 
> AOL.  My friend doesn't have a credit card, and AOL chargers an additional 
> $5.00/mo for billing.  I've looked for additional ram, but no luck so far. 
> Also, I'm not sure it's a good idea to spend any money upgrading that 
> computer.
> 
> Can anybody suggest a suitable ISP?
> Thanks, Jim, w6ivw 

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