HomeFree Phoneline USB ships

HomeFree Phoneline USB ships puts another piece of PC gear into the September hardware pile, and 1999 is not exactly short on that right now.

shipment of HomeFree Phoneline USB, the PC industry’s first USB home networking product with cross-platform support. Diamond’s HomeFree Phoneline USB product allows consumers to quickly install home networking hardware and begin sharing Internet access, peripherals and multi-player games between PC and Macintosh computers. The HomeFree Phoneline USB product provides PC and Macintosh users with a solution that is easy to install and works across multiple platforms.

The hardware race is getting mean, and the upside is simple: gamers keep getting faster, stranger toys to bolt into their rigs.