1 Dec
2005
1 Dec
'05
6:47 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:47:57 +0000
Dan Williams <williams.dan at gmail.com> wrote:
Ah, you'd be surprised how many machines these days are instead provided with singing,
dancing, animated cursors and dialogue boxes. And isn't it a documented goal at
Microsoft to completely do away with 'legacy' features like serial and parallel
ports? I remember reading the 'PC 98' or somesuch spec from Microsoft and
thinking to myself that to 'upgrade' a motherboard to Microsoft's liking, you
get out a dykes and cut off all kinds of headers on the motherboard.
USB is supposed to save the world, etc. etc. Everything else must disappear.
Although the
SIO2PC allows you to also take control of a PC's serial modem and
parallel ports as well as its floppy, hard disk and networked drives.
I thought all windows machines connected to the internet pretty much
came with this as standard ;)