2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
4:40 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
My immediate thought was BBC micro actually, as you mentioned, with a 3.5"
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
sure if flat-panel LCDs exist that take component RGB at 80's sync rates as input.
Not relevant in this case (because it's not documented and not fixable), but
my old IBM Thinkpad laptop does pretty well for itself - it's new enough to
have a USB port, but old enough to have both serial and parallel ports too. I
regret giving a PCMCIA SCSI adapter away a few years ago, as with that
available too, I could do *most* of the things that I do from the desktop PC.
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) I saw another useless USB product today -- the USB
Hamster Wheel. It was
a little motorised treadmill wheel with a toy hamster in it, apparently
it plugs into a USB port, you run the supplied Lusedoze drives, and it
spins round when you typr. Hmmm....
A USB microwave or video recorder would be handy for those people too inept to
use them directly :)
I don't think anything's going to quite top the hamster, though.
cheers
J.