Sure: poor-man's Network Interface Card. I wrote a Ethernet IPX/SPX
translation program for a Commodore 64 and hooked the thing up to my
network (with a hardware converter between the modem and the hub of
course) at home. No real purpose to it for me, but it was a fun
project. Granted, the connection is slow as balls, but there it is
anyway!
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John Foust wrote:
>
> At 07:08 PM 9/22/98 -0700, kyrrin_at_jps.net wrote:
> >
> > It tops out at 2400bps, speed-wise, and was designed to handle
> >synchronous transmission only. There's a weak possibility that a
> >commercial datacomm company might still be interested in it, but I've
> >seen people having trouble -giving- those things away at swap meets.
>
> Apart from the "gee, that really was slow" potential for demonstration,
> recreating the past, is there *any* use for old modems?
>
> - John
Received on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 09:42:19 BST