2 Jan
2001
2 Jan
'01
8:13 a.m.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
I just bought two printerport Xircom ethernet adapters
for 9bucks apiece
on Ebay. Only three of the 25 available sold so there are still units
available.
I got two because they were so cheap. I wanted one for my Atari ST.
There is a mod out there to run one on the ST by breaking some signals out
and routing them to the cartridge port but I can't find it. Right now I'm
running MiNT on this machine with 4mb ram (can't have any more).
Do you have a HD? I'd like to run MiNT, but I'm uncertain about its
usefulness without a hard drive.
The other problem is that the two parport ethernet drivers for the Atari
require either a D-Link DE600 or an RTL8012 based adaptor, and AFAIK,
Xircom ones are compatible with neither.
It is networked but via a PPP serial link at
19200bps.... The ppp server
is Tserve for OS/2.
An OS/2 junkie? That was a while ago (not counting the state railways and
the local supermarket). I've been intending to install Warp on one of my
new Pentiums (I've already got 2.1 on a 486). It doesn't seem to like
ATAPI drives, though. Cor, I feel so modern, having got my first 100 MHz
computer.