8 Jun
2006
8 Jun
'06
7:33 p.m.
Depends on what the card is - People don't need a cabinet full of DZ11s
anymore, and there are some other now-worthless heaps of cards out there
like synchronous serial - this could be hurting the perceived value of the
machines.
Speak for yourself :-). I find a lot of serial ports to be _very_ useful
on a computer (I have many devices with RS232 interfaces), I think I have
about 4 DZs and as many DJs (each of the latter being a 4-lsot system
unit backplane) to go into my 11/45 sometime.
As regards synchronous serial cards, comms processors (DMCs, DMRs, etc),
and the like, I find them interesting. But then as I mentioned last week,
I am very much a hardware person.
Yes, I know I am not going to determine the market for these things, but
there _are_ people around who like the weird stuff...
-tony