1 Apr
2017
1 Apr
'17
10:40 a.m.
Anyone know which Lucent semiconductor device or devices were used in the
first Apple AirPort, the Lucent board was " Lucent WaveLAN Silver PC Card"
but I'd like to know the devices used.
Tom
2 Apr
2 Apr
4:27 p.m.
If I recall correctly, as you've noted it was a WaveLAN / Orinoco silver
card ('HERMES' chipset), connected via PCMCIA to a SBC based around an AMD
ELAN SC400 - 33AC 486-like CPU. It had something like a couple megs of RAM
and maybe 512K of FLASH. I don't know what OS it ran, if anything 'off the
shelf'
Why do you ask?
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Tom Gardner via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone know which Lucent semiconductor device or
devices were used in the
first Apple AirPort, the Lucent board was " Lucent WaveLAN Silver PC Card"
but I'd like to know the devices used.
Tom
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12 Apr
12 Apr
8:34 a.m.
If I recall correctly, as you've noted it was a
WaveLAN / Orinoco silver
card ('HERMES' chipset), connected via PCMCIA to a SBC based around an AMD
ELAN SC400 - 33AC 486-like CPU. It had something like a couple megs of RAM
and maybe 512K of FLASH. I don't know what OS it ran, if anything 'off the
shelf'
Why do you ask?
One of the early Apple Airports ran NetBSD, I believe supported by Wasabi
Systems originally of NYC, then Norfolk VA. Not sure if it was the first.
I still have a pre-wifi 13" long ISA WaveLan card that is in the 915mhz
ISM band sitting on a shelf.
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