3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
1:23 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
My immediate thought was BBC micro actually, as you mentioned, with a 3.5"
The other thing against the Beeb is that it doesn't really have enough
user I/O lines (just one 8 bit port, I would prefer at least 4 times
that). Yes I could add more, but if I am going to start homebrewing stuff
I might as well make the whole machine.
A machine that comes close is the Sage II (it's got GPIB as standard, a
system bus I could easily add a user port to, but see above, and runs off
a seiral terminal). Another possibilty is the HP Integral PC (but where
the heck do I find the GPIO card for that?)
Yep,
personally I'd only buy a Mac mini if it was 10-20% bigger and came with
some real ports - say serial, parallel, and SCSI. Then it'd be a nice compact
THis reminds me of something that I've been looking for :
A reasonably portable computer -- meaning it can be mains powered, but
must be all one box (including keyboard and display), although I suppose
I would accepta machine that needs a serial terminal (although not a
PC-like machine that needs a monitor and keyboard) floppy drive grafted into the back-right corner of the
case (I think one
*just* fits). Problem is I'm not sure what you'd do about display; I'm not
Interesting idea!
sure if flat-panel LCDs exist that take component RGB
at 80's sync rates as input.
Flat-screen TV? I am not sure they come small enough....
-tony