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- From: mweiss@mis.mi04.zds.com (Mitchell Weiss)
- Subject: Re: how portable can we get?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.212518.7425@mis.mi04.zds.com>
- Keywords: modem, cordless
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems
- References: <Upon> <Request> <C0D4wr.n5B@cs.psu.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:25:18 GMT
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- In article <C0D4wr.n5B@cs.psu.edu> kalin@math.psu.edu ( kalin ) writes:
- >Here's what I think is possible.
- >Not so long ago I saw somewhere (any pointers welcome_
- >a stupid device which is actually two boxes. One is plugged
- >in the phone wall outlet and the other has the batteries and
- >you drag it around in the house or the yard and plug a general
- >household phone in it. Now your phone is cordless - kind of.
- >
- >I have a strong feeling that this can be done to laptops with
- >internal modems - so no more 30 ft of phone wires in the house,
- >and a wife complaining about a tipped floor lamp.....
- >
- >Any idea who makes those phone "RABBITS" ?
- >
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- I know, for example, that Proxima was showing a wireless Ethernet
- lan PCMCIA adapter at COMDEX recently. You would need a laptop
- with a PCMCIA adapter, and a desktop with a standard Ethernet
- adapter. Then, you could use software such as Windows for Workgroups,
- LANTASTIC, or some other peer-to-peer network to give you this
- functionality. Then put a modem in the desktop near the phone line.
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- The Proxima lan is not yet for sale. It was in Beta.
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- ___________________________________________
- Mitchell Weiss mweiss@zds.com
- I speak for me. Only Me, Not Them
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