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		steve1977 on June 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models > For instance, Apple was the first to bring WiFi to laptops in 1999. Everyone laughed at them at the time. Who needs a wireless network when you can have a physical LAN, ey? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort: "AirPort 802.11b card" "The original model, known as simply AirPort card, was a re-branded Lucent WaveLAN/Orinoco Gold PC card, in a modified housing that lacked the integrated antenna."

gumby on June 11, 2024 [–]

That was also how lucent’s access points worked.

collinmanderson on June 16, 2024 | [–]

It was pretty neat how you could take the PCMCIA card out of an AirPort or WaveLAN/Orinoco and stick it in a laptop and it would just work.

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