[P1] 17" Laptops P.S.

Fred Stevens K2FRD K2FRD at stny.rr.com
Tue Nov 4 09:05:49 PST 2003


At 11:57 -0500 04/11/03, Jack Rodgers wrote:
>On Nov 4, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:
>
>>>>I don't know if macs were last with ethernet, but I do know that macs had
>>>>ethernet as standard equipment way before typical PCs. (Assuming my
>>>>friends & co-workers 5-10 years ago had typical PCs.)
>
>There's a difference between built in Ethernet and adding a card. I 
>think Apple was in the lead for adding built it but a look at 
>history will show PCs were using Ethernet when Apple was still 
>hawking local talk.

Not my quote above, Jack, but irrelevant. I had mentioned that the PM 
6100 had built-in ethernet in 1994.  Do you have an example of a PC 
of that era or before which had built-in ethernet?

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73 de Fred Stevens K2FRD
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