On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 18:44, Rick Bensene via cctalk <[email protected]> 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
