13 Feb
2025
13 Feb
'25
11:50 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:44 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Correction to my posting of 2/10/2025
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. ...
So which is it? My memory of the time was they were RS-233 devices that got
their power from the keyboard port via a pass through cable. If they were
parallel port, the PP provides enough power...
Xircom also had parallel port ethernet products...
I never saw a modem that was connected that way from them.
Warner
-Rick