Can Dr. Watson use a PCMCIA Ethernet card or a parallel port Ethernet adapter?
Yes. PCMCIA Ethernet adapters appear to work quite well. Parallel port adapters do have limitations, however. Older parallel ports tended to be optimized for outgoing traffic. It is best if your computer has a “bi-directional” parallel port and a parallel port adapter (and software drivers) designed to take advantage of that capability. Nevertheless, parallel port adapters tend to choke on heavy packet loads and often consume so much of the CPU resources of the computer that the machine appears to have stopped functioning.
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