Re: Airport cards for G3 iMac - is someone joking on price?

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I did the Belkin Bridge / Game adaptor thing on Dad's eMac and it
seems to be pretty stable.

A 10 quid 802.11g PCI card would have been easier and cheaper of
course ...

Hardly - it would have been a complete pain as you would have had to
hand wire the bus onto the motherboard, write a driver to provide access
to the addressing on the PCI card and provide a framework to support the
card inside the emacs frame.
OK, all doable, but not exactly easier or cheaper!


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Woody

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