Re: Airport cards for G3 iMac - is someone joking on price?
- From: T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:16:22 GMT
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:55:22 +0100, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody)
wrote:
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!
Oh, Mac's of that era didn't come with the 'std' PCI slots then Woody?
<weg>.
All the best ..
T i m
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