[geeks] How low can you go...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Jonathan Groll <lists at groll.co.za>
>Date: 2007/03/16 Fri AM 06:38:00 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] How low can you go...

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>For me the biggest problem I have is no suitable PC card networking
>cards, so the utility of these computers is less if they can't be
>networked. Truthfully though, I could have investigated some sort of SLIP link, or
>looked into obtaining a suitable network card which will cost more than
>the laptop :-(

If you can stomach 10 M/bit cards, they are not hard to find at all (around here anyway - typically under $10 shipped), my personal favorite card is the Intel 10/100 Real Port card that takes up two slots and has a real RJ-45 jack in the side (Xircom had similar cards)) - some even had 56K modems as well (so an RJ-11 for telco and RJ-45 for modem). I may just get one of those and use this laptop as a rackmount console (1024x768, nice keyboard, built-in trackpad for mouse, an actual 9 pin serial port)...

>If anyone seriously has time to waste, or sadistic tendencies, or knows
>that their lives are being wasted anyway, contact me off list if you
>want one of these 486's. I'm not even sure if they're worth the
>hydrocarbons involved in shipping them world wide ;-)

The P/166 laptop I have is just 6 months shy of being 10 years old...

Lionel