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Reading this is pretty funny to me because my first wireless router was a common one with a PCMCIA slot to connect a WiFi card :-)
by jmrm 4y ago
Reading this is pretty funny to me because my first wireless router was a common one with a PCMCIA slot to connect a WiFi card :-)
- dylan604 4y agoMacBookPro G3 with PCMIA slot, an Orinoco Gold card, a Pringles can made into a Yagi style antenna, and a friend with a car for wardriving sessions. memory lane...
- jimmySixDOF 4y agowe used to play around with them pre 802.11 as WaveLAN for under the radar point-to-point links back when the max 2Mbps was eye popping fast and eye popping expensive lol
- samstave 4y agothis is the best sentence I have read on HN in a long time
- rootsudo 4y agoI was thinking what was the gold card and kept thinking of cryix cpu's, but it was Orinoco! Those were worth their weight in gold and hard to find compared to linksys pcmicia. And then having to do some ndis wrapper fun with linksys or intel cards. Wow. And even then, no packet injection!
- dylan604 4y ago>I was thinking what was the gold card Orinoco was one of those words that just stood out as it wasn't that common of a word in my daily vocabulary. Not needing to talk about rivers in South America, the only familiarity I had was from the Enya song. Everytime I'd insert the card into the slot, I'd sing "Sail away sail away" in my head.