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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: AC Network card
Message-ID: <241@kesmai.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 90 18:16:22 GMT
References: <1990Mar3.235252.7708@eddie.mit.edu>
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Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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In article <1990Mar3.235252.7708@eddie.mit.edu>, shawn@mit-eddie (Shawn F. Mckay) writes:
> 
> 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).
Carrier Current Technologies, Inc.
9600-J Southern Pines Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28217
(704)529-6550

They are advertised in the latest Computer Shopper so if they are not
around anymore it's a recent deal.
> 
> 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?
> 
Yes, it is a neat idea.  At $199 a unit (minimum of $398 since you need two
for a connection), however,  I suspect most hobbists would opt for the
uglier but cheaper route and just run a wire.

David Albrecht