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Re: Ethernet or Not?

It'd be handy but that cable makes it hard to walk far <G>  I use
10Base2, myself.  PCMCIA access to the LAN on occasion, maybe?

  I'd vote for:

  "Mandatory":
  IDE or SCSI, or PCMCIA instead;
  VGA (for debugging, it'd be OK if that was capable of being powered
down unless in use!)
  2 or more serial ports, 4 desireable (PCMCIA modem is fine for me,
have a 56k Hayes)
  parallel port access somehow (PCMCIA card, worst case, but built-in
lets you use Parallel port CD-ROMs, SCSI adapters, etc.)

  "Would be nice":
  PCMCIA (2 slots with the top one capable of taking a type III HD)

  Personally, I'd pass on floppy access (Too little data, too much power
& bulk & too many problems;  Give me PCMCIA instead!  40+ Mb in a
smaller, faster package.  More expensive, I agree.  Worth it.)  Or I'd
pull the HD & plug it into an adapter & use a parallel port adapter or a
desktop machine to move the data;  Either's more reliable & faster than
floppies, in my experience.  (Maybe I just have bad luck with floppies.)

  Mark Willis
  

Martin Lightheart wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't this question has been posted before, but here goes, is it
> desireable to have ethernet on a wearable or not?  That is, a 10baseT
> connector.  Or is better to have an IR port that uses ethernet?
> 
> Also, which interfaces (ide, floppy, vga, serial port, parallel port, etc)
> would one want on a wearable?
> 
> Martin

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