Re: Chip in first Apple AirPort WiFi

2017-04-17 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Apr 12, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: > I still have a pre-wifi 13" long ISA WaveLan card that is in the 915mhz ISM > band sitting on a shelf. Weird Stuff had one too when last I was there. -- Chris

Re: Chip in first Apple AirPort WiFi

2017-04-12 Thread Ethan via cctalk
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

Re: Chip in first Apple AirPort WiFi

2017-04-02 Thread Ian Finder via cctalk
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

Chip in first Apple AirPort WiFi

2017-04-01 Thread Tom Gardner via cctalk
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