Steph, this will give you an ethernet port [link]
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NoiseDesign - Jan 09, 2008 7:26:38 pm PST #4218 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Steph L. - Jan 09, 2008 7:26:59 pm PST #4219 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Does it have a PCMCIA slot?
Maybe? What would that look like?
(Sorry to be so braindead, but all I needed at the apartment -- with that old laptop -- was a cable. I think it came with the DSL modem from the phone company; after I moved here, I returned the modem and all the cables to the phone company, since The Boy already had his set up.)
Steph L. - Jan 09, 2008 7:29:07 pm PST #4220 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Your best bet is to get a USB Ethernet adapter for the machine.
Okay, I was looking at those, too -- and they made the most sense to my peanut brain. It's just that I saw the crossover cable and wasn't sure if it would work.
Thanks, ND, Plei, and t!
DCJensen - Jan 10, 2008 5:25:21 am PST #4221 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
There's always the DLink PocketLAN Adapter model 620CT, which converts a paralell port into an ethernet connection. [link]
finding one cheaply and quickly? I dunno.
Back in the windows 98 days we used a special parallel cable to hook two PCs together.
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2008 5:27:45 am PST #4222 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Back in the Windows 3.1 days we used a special serial cable to hook two PCs together.
Miracleman - Jan 10, 2008 5:28:49 am PST #4223 of 25501
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Back in the windows 98 days we used a special parallel cable to hook two PCs together.
I remember back in the day when we had to hook two abaci together with string! That was our "Internet", you coddled young whippersnappers!
And we were glad to have it, too!
Dana - Jan 10, 2008 5:31:13 am PST #4224 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My husband and I used to hook up machines with a serial cable so we could game together.
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2008 5:31:56 am PST #4225 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
While I'm not as old as MM, I remember the days when we had to use steam pipe to hook two steam-powered difference engines together. Then of course we had to deal with the incompatibilities between coal-fired steam-powered difference engines and wood-burning steam-powered difference engines. And then the headaches of enterprise-wide conversion to oil-fired boilers....
NoiseDesign - Jan 10, 2008 6:15:18 am PST #4226 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
In my day the LAN was made by banging rocks together.
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2008 6:50:02 am PST #4227 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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