On 2020-04-30 11:44 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote:
On 2020-04-30 11:37 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
My main laptop uses a dongle for wired Ethernet (a reasonable trade-off considering how rarely I use it),but I've seen ingeniously-thin RJ45 sockets built into some units.
Back when I was at IBM (the first time), modems and network adapters came in the form of PCMCIA cards. Those were a tight squeeze for the connectors, but they managed. My R31 ThinkPad came with built in Ethernet and modem, but I lost the modem when I updated the WiFi from B only to G. The modem and original WiFi shared the same daughter board.
<In Palin's voice> Why, we'd 'a given our eye teeth for PCMCIA! In *my* day... <see attached> (with apologies for the jpeg - CC to follow if desired) Cheers, Mike
