Subj : Re: Framework laptop
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Nov 28 2025 00:43:11

  Re: Re: Framework laptop
  By: Nightfox to Denn on Thu Nov 27 2025 09:28 am

 > How early?  I built a computer for someone in 2017 and added a PCI Express
 > wifi card, and it had an antenna.  Also I built a new computer for myself in
 > 2019 and the motherboard has wifi built-in, and it has a couple of antennas.


I remember inheriting some old Orinoco gear in 2004 or so -- a 802.11b AP with no ethernet ports, a handful of Orinoco "silver" cards, which only did 56 bit WEP, or maybe WPA...

One of the cool things I got was a PCI card with a PCMCIA slot - the slot stuck out the back of the card, so the antenna of a wireless card stuck outside of the case.

I remember being excited about 11 mbps. How far we've come...

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