Compaq Computer Corp has introduced its first Ethernet PC Card to enable notebook users to access corporate networks remotely. The board is PCMCIA Type II card-, IEEE 802.3-compliant, with connections to 10Base-T and 10Base-2 networks. It has 16-bit data bus, a 32Kb main memory packet buffer memory and transfer rate of up to 10M-bits per second. Driver support is said to include MS- DOS, Artisoft Corp’s LANtastic, Banyan Systems Inc Vines, Novell Inc’s NetWare, OS/2, all of the Microsoft Corp systems, Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and TCP/IP environments. Available immediately, it sells for $170.
