[GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?

[El Fontanero]

On 2020-04-30 11:44 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 2020-04-30 11:37 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
>> My main laptop uses a dongle for wired Ethernet (a reasonable 
>> trade-off considering how rarely I use it),but I've seen 
>> ingeniously-thin RJ45 sockets built into some units.
>
> Back when I was at IBM (the first time), modems and network adapters 
> came in the form of PCMCIA cards.  Those were a tight squeeze for the 
> connectors, but they managed.  My R31 ThinkPad came with built in 
> Ethernet and modem, but I lost the modem when I updated the WiFi from 
> B only to G.  The modem and original WiFi shared the same daughter board.

<In Palin's voice> Why, we'd 'a given our eye teeth for PCMCIA! In *my* 
day...
<see attached>

(with apologies for the jpeg - CC to follow if desired)

Cheers,
Mike

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