PPort ethernet, new on ebay for $9.00

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Jan 2 08:13:42 2001

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 THETechnoid_at_home.com wrote:

> I just bought two printerport Xircom ethernet adapters for 9bucks apiece
> on Ebay. Only three of the 25 available sold so there are still units
> available.
>
> I got two because they were so cheap. I wanted one for my Atari ST.
> There is a mod out there to run one on the ST by breaking some signals out
> and routing them to the cartridge port but I can't find it. Right now I'm
> running MiNT on this machine with 4mb ram (can't have any more).

Do you have a HD? I'd like to run MiNT, but I'm uncertain about its
usefulness without a hard drive.
The other problem is that the two parport ethernet drivers for the Atari
require either a D-Link DE600 or an RTL8012 based adaptor, and AFAIK,
Xircom ones are compatible with neither.

> It is networked but via a PPP serial link at 19200bps.... The ppp server
> is Tserve for OS/2.

An OS/2 junkie? That was a while ago (not counting the state railways and
the local supermarket). I've been intending to install Warp on one of my
new Pentiums (I've already got 2.1 on a 486). It doesn't seem to like
ATAPI drives, though. Cor, I feel so modern, having got my first 100 MHz
computer.
Received on Tue Jan 02 2001 - 08:13:42 GMT