On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 20:49 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Hayes modems
Just about all modems are Hayes compatible (and I think you can still buy
dial-up modems...)
AT commands are alive and well and in your mobile phone - how else do
you talk to the radio stack?
Sony Minidiscs
Hmmm.. I spotted a 'Minidisk Walkman' (portable playback-only minidisk
player) along with a 'Network Walkman' (looks to be an MP3 player, it's
got a Toshiba PCMCIA hard disk inside) for \pounds 1.00 each in a charity
shop last week. Yes I bought them (I don;t know why, my idea of a
portable sound reproduction device is a Philips EL3586, but anyway..)
Why? Because it would be rude not to, at that price.
Z80 CPU's
I have lost cound of how many Z80s I am using...
Four in one of my cars, two of which controlled the heating system. No,
I don't know why the heating required more CPU horsepower than the ABS
controller.
Gordon