Next up, 300 Baud modem

Lots of these going in Texas...

...therefore, Woot is buying these up itself to create faux demand and convince gullible Wooters that this is a popular, must-have item.

Either that, or people are really desperate to move this thing along to the good old Bag of Coal.

There was a sign out front of the restaurant that said "Free WiFi Anytime!", so I went in, slapped in this PCMCIA network card and rocked that WiFi circa 1999. Is this Y2K compliant?

1) PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.

2) Use this to add a second network card to an old laptop and make it into a super-duper configurable powerful router that uses less power than a desktop with two network cards.

That said, I still can't bring myself to even pretend I need one.

roebeet wrote:Hoping for an IOMEGA ZIP drive after this Woot! is done....

OCH! MISTLETOE FRENCHING? GROSS! reading this just made me remember my dad buying that drive and the floppys for it such a waste of money i swearr

Why? Seriously. Most laptops ship with Ethernet. No laptops ship with PCMCIA anymore.

Michaelb3 wrote:This is handy if you want to connect to the information super highway (it's an interconnected network, developed by DARPA. uses a standard called hypertext transfer protocol). However you'll also need what's called "browser." You can grab a CD of software called Netscape at some specialty retailers.

Thanks for the tip, I just purchased Netscape Navigator Gold! Can't wait to start hitting up Gopher sites.

I heard the next Burgandy Olfactory Center can only be acquired if you are using one of these as your network interface. Better get at least one!

I wonder:

Could I use these for a tile floor?
Maybe a kitchen backsplash?
Coasters for the coffee table?
Skipping across a lake?

This isn't even Burgandy Olfactory Center worthy.

Something for my Compaq Aero/33.

Not only is this a POS, but it's a reeefurbished POS. C'mon woot, did you miss a decimal point here, even at $0.79 this would be a tough sell.

Half over. People are actually buying these?
Oh wait. Maybe there's only 2 of them.

Useful for turning your old 486 craptop into a router running pfsense or something, ONLY if it already has an integrated ethernet port! Otherwise, you'd need two, and the obtrusively dongling protrusion on this card prevents you from slotting two adjacent to each other.

tjrbidder wrote:There was a sign out front of the restaurant that said "Free WiFi Anytime!", so I went in, slapped in this PCMCIA network card and rocked that WiFi circa 1999. Is this Y2K compliant?

If this was Wi-Fi it would be so old it would require one of the flip up radio antennas.

Can I make it work with my ZX Spectrum?

DrWho520 wrote:Do laptops still come with slots for these?

Nah,but it would be even harder to find one that didn't already have an ethernet port.

madrman wrote:The best use I can think of for this is having 2 wired connections at once... But I don't know for what.

Loop it to each other and share your laptop with your laptop! See if you can confuse it! I wish they had that for the Gameboy Color back in the day so I could trade Poke'Mon with myself and collect them all!

Just what i needed to complete my collection of crappy '80's memorabilia. Thank you Woot. Thank you.

jeffjonez wrote:Retro even! When's the last time you used PCMCIA in a sentence?

Using PCMCIA in a sentence says something as well...

hydrateguy wrote:Can I use this to network my blue ray player to my wireless network?

Unless it has a PCMCIA port on the BR player, Pretty sure not, then I was say nope.

treetimer wrote:Next up, 300 Baud modem

Acoustic Coupler...

GREAT STOCKING STUFFER.

I would consider buying one as a cheeky retro business card holder, except the super-old 16-Mbyte Cisco flash card (which slides into a PCMCIA slot, but my laptop doesn't have the pinouts for it to actually connect) I have at my desk cannot be taken apart, so I won't waste the money on buying this one only to be disappointed.

Does this come with a complimentary AOL 3.5 Floppy, or -gasp- perhaps one of those newfangled CD-ROMS I keep hearing about

cliffpeterson wrote:Acoustic Coupler...

BNC terminators...

Currently the map is saying they're selling the most to Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin and Oregon. Large retro computer market perhaps?

In other news, it looks like my Samsung Galaxy Tab from last Tuesday is en route.

Expect one of these and an iPod from earlier in your Burgandy Olfactory Center

Ringo4422 wrote:Half over. People are actually buying these?
Oh wait. Maybe there's only 2 of them.

No-- I think they have some logic in their system that moves really crappy crap along if noone is buying the crap because of its crappiness

These make great flux capacitors...in for 3.

too bad they fired the shipping clerk that forgot to send these out after the Oct 2005 woot-off.

cliffpeterson wrote:Acoustic Coupler...

Cassette tape drive.

I want Broadband Over Cable, not this thing!

cliffpeterson wrote:Acoustic Coupler...

Cassette tape drive.

I was pretty convinced this was a Bandoleer of Carrots in disguise and read the description very carefully to see if this was one of Woot's tricks.

It's even more glorious as a refurb.

where did they find these?

At this rate, maybe we get to see a modern computer too, say a TRS-80??

Slowest woot I have ever seen… sigh.

You could sharpen the flat end of this... They'd make pretty good prison shanks for $8.

What else could this be used for?