I remember paying for a couple of NE2k cards in the mid 90s, as the house I was living in used 10baseT networking for our student computers. I paid something l

I remember paying for a couple of NE2k cards in the mid 90s, as the house I was living in used 10baseT networking for our student computers. I paid something like £15 to buy each card, and they were found in a cardboard box of "misc. networking cards". Random piles of undocumented, unlabelled cards. Most were NE2K, though there were some 3Com cards - I remember I bought one by mistake, couldn't get it working properly under Linux at the time and took it back to swap it over. That was around the time winmodems were a thing, and my personal PC had one. My memory is that of the three/four PCs in the house only one of them had a modem that worked under Linux and so we'd use that as the common "internet" machine, setting up routing so we could get internet access via that one for 30-60 minutes a day or so.