Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

[Bill Freeman]

> On 29-Nov-2009, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> sent:
> > This thing is so old, it doesn't have ethernet (or WiFi).
> > But it does have a legacy serial port (and parallel port), so
> >
> > Is anyone's junk box too deep for their own good?
> 
> Yes! I happen to have, deep in my junk box, a parallel to
> Ethernet adapter! It's an old D-Link thing, and it might be
> 10base2 rather than 10baseT, but it might work, and I'm more than
> happy to offer it up.

Thanks.  I'll keep it in mind.  But I now have access to two PCMCIA
ethernet cards for testing, so I'm probably good as far as ethernet
goes.

> 
> IIRC, it is not one of the ones that works with Linux. (See?
> Keeping it on-topic!)

Err, yes, and I'll be trying puppy or dsl on it after I have the
weather station protocol figured out, so I'm on topic too.

73s, Bill