Labtops are probably a bit more survivable than personal computers as they are mobile, but in 1997 they were obviously far rarer and less powerful than today. Computers in secure locations or which were protected from EMP will still be around, but the big problem is power to run them as battery life is not very long. The now obsolete CD was only beginning to replace the floppy disk so memory capacity is very low.
The internet back then was also nearly all dial up, no wireless and little broadband. If the phone lines are still working some limited bandwith service might be available between connected locations, but no world wide web. This is touched upon in Loonz's article about Virginia in T2K.
Mobile phones are around. The big clunky ones were largely replaced by the more modern smaller nifty ones by 1997. But the availability of a cellular network would be dependent on the how degraded the transceiver stations were from EMP or general destruction and lack of service. Two way radios are likely to be far more common.
GPS would be fairly rare outside of the military, and probably only available in the Frenco-Belgian Union which still had a satellite network.
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