Re: Sure Stupidity

Jesse (jrvincent@wesleyan.edu)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:25:23 -0400

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:08:06PM -0700, Tom Whore wrote:
> > At 3:30 PM -0700 8/19/98, Gregory Alan Bolcer came up with this:
> >
> > > Thinking about cancelling my order, who ever
> > > heard of a laptop that you can't use both the network
> > > and CD at the same time?
>
> I have had several and NONE of them had this probelm. Toshibas, IBMs,
> Little Shitty Chop Shop clones.....as long as I had the slots for em it
> was all good.
>

Slots is precisely the issue here. It only has one PCMCIA slot.
I love my Vaio 505. Partially because it's a japanese model with
the kana characters on the keyboard.

You could: 1 get a Parallel ethernet adaptor.
2 make an image of the cd on your hard disc (only works for
some games)
3 look into combined ether-scsi pcmcia cards. I recall that
there was at least one a few years back.

jesse
>
> 

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