The Xircom PE3 was my other favorite way to get a laptop online, also through its full parallel port.
Once around 2005-ish, I scored an 802.11b client-bridge real cheap because .11g stuff had been out a while. Velcroed it to the lid of my Zenith Supersport, and made a ten-inch ethernet cable to connect it to the PE3. An unholy abomination allowed both units to tap power from the keyboard port; the less said about that, the better.
What felt like thirty hours of hair-pulling later, I had a 720k DOS boot disk with packet drivers and a telnet client, and I could MUD from my lap, wirelessly. Ahh, the sweet smell of useless success.
Then like an idiot, I sent all that stuff to the recycler around 2008.
Once around 2005-ish, I scored an 802.11b client-bridge real cheap because .11g stuff had been out a while. Velcroed it to the lid of my Zenith Supersport, and made a ten-inch ethernet cable to connect it to the PE3. An unholy abomination allowed both units to tap power from the keyboard port; the less said about that, the better.
What felt like thirty hours of hair-pulling later, I had a 720k DOS boot disk with packet drivers and a telnet client, and I could MUD from my lap, wirelessly. Ahh, the sweet smell of useless success.
Then like an idiot, I sent all that stuff to the recycler around 2008.