13 Feb
2025
13 Feb
'25
11:54 p.m.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 18:44, Rick Bensene via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These
were full modems that were small enough that they plugged into a laptop
serial <parallel> port, and got their power from the laptop via the
external mouse/keyboard port. They had a feed-though connector so you
could still connect and external mouse/keyboard if you wanted. ...
I remember those, and when I went searching to look for more information on
them I found something I hadn't stumbled on before - apparently Xircom made
a parallel port ethernet adapter. It must have been pretty painful. The
parallel port wasn't a great high speed interface; I unfortunately had a
parallel port ZIP drive and it was a dog.
-Henry