[cctalk] Re: RS232 - parallel modems!?

On 2/13/2025 5:54 PM, Henry Bent via cctalk wrote: Yep, I used both the PEII and the PE3. https://www.ardent-tool.com/Xircom/Xircom_Pocket_Adapters.html Hard to install on a parallel port, due to the little thumbscrews, but worked fine The PE3 was awesome, though, for a device without Ethernet.  The track-like thumbscrew was awesome if you needed to detach the unit. At the time, I was using a PC110 IBM Pocket COMputer with two docking stations and some store and forward packet SW to have my personal data at work and home. Using the PEIII on the dock was so helpful.  The PC110 had 2 Type I-II/1 Type III PCMCIA slot, and it needed the whole slot for the 260MB PCMCIA drive, so using a PC card for Ethernet was not possible. Not sure if that dock had EPP, but even the simple Parallel port was acceptable on speed for me, even for early Windows 95 web browsing. The link above shows they made a ArcNet adapter, a Token Ring Adapter, and it says there was an EtherTalk adapter, not sure of the use case. Here's a link to some drivers for the PEIII: https://retrocmp.de/transfer/xircom-pe3.htm Never saw the combo modem+ethernet, but the I was impressed by the PEIII.  When I finally was able to get a Type II HDD, I was able to use a PC card Ethernet adapter and the PEIII I think got shared with someone at a show. Jim -- Jim Brain brain(a)jbrain.com www.jbrain.com