AC Network card

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From: Shawn F. Mckay
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 1990 23:52

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Greetings, I wonder if anyone has heard of a company called "Carrier Current",
located in Durham, NC? I was reading an aricle from a few years back about
a product they were selling called "CarrierNet", What I guess it was is a
card to permit you to use the regular A/C lines of your house to set up a
local area network, (up to the nearest transformer anyway).

I called them, and they don't seem to be around any more, but the idea hits
me as SUPER, especially for the hobby market, so how could something this
winning die out? Granted they wanted *MUCH* too much for the product, but
this alone seems like a poor reason for it to die out... Or is it?

Needless to say, I would be very interested in hearing about any similar
products.. Also, does anyone know if the TANDY power center controllers
can be used as network imps? After all, they talk RS232 on one side,
and send signals to remote-units on the other via the A/C lines, comments?

Anyway, thanks for any help, if I get any intrest, I'll post a followup,
with a list of suppliers/products...

				Thanks again,
				  -- Shawn

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Subject: AC Network card
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Date: 3 Mar 90 23:52:52 GMT
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