Re: GSM card for _desktop_ PC

["steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

You can.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] GSM card for _desktop_ PC


> I think you can buy PCI cards for your desktop that give you PCMCIA
slots...
>
> At 12:53 11/10/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hiya,
> >
> >I'd like to be able to send (and maybe receive?) SMS messages to
my home
PC...
> >
> >What I want is something I could already acheive with:
> >
> >         - Laptop
> >         - PCMCIA modem with GSM kit
> >         - Mobile Phone handset
> >
> >What I want is a single PCI card, so I can use a desktop PC.
> >
> >In an ideal world, this PC card would have a SIM socket on-board
and act
> >as the handset.
> >Failing that, it would act as a modem, but with a GSM connector
for, say,
> >a Nokia 2110 handset (ie cheap, nasty, can be stuck in behind the
PC.)
> >
> >I could then get a cheapo SIM-only deal on a mobile phone
contract, and
> >lo, a PC which I could send messages to FOC with the various
email->SMS
> >services out there...
> >
> >M.
> >
> >
>
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