[Coco] Off Topic - PCMCIA Wireless Card

Steve Ostrom smostrom7 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 22 18:39:41 EST 2009


This is an off-topic question for the Coco List.

Besides my Coco, I've been playing with another retro computer, the NEC 
MobilePro 770 hand-held computer (manufactured quite a few years ago).  It's 
a fun little machine and uses the Microsoft CE 2.1 operating system, so you 
know it's ancient.

I need a wireless Type II PCMCIA card in order to use it to get on the 
internet, and maybe to print to a wireless printer.  Most of the information 
I have found using a Google search dates back to the early 2000's.  Cards 
that are mentioned that "should" work are the Avaya silver and the Orinoco 
gold.  Drivers for these older cards may be an issue.

Does anyone on the list have a suggestion as to what might be a more modern, 
versatile wireless PCMCIA card to try?  If not, I'll try to look for some of 
these older cards.

Thanks for the help.

-- Steve --




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