19 Jan
2005
19 Jan
'05
9:42 a.m.
Yo uhad a 555?
I managed (then) without a 'scope at all. Now my 555 is
alongside me with a good selection of plug-ins. I don't use it all that
much -- I find a logic analyser to be a more useful instrument, but anyway.
Oh! No, I did it at work! It wasn't a 555, it was a 564, the
storage job. Sorry for the confusion doubled. I do own a 564 now,
since they are umm let's say heavily discounted today. Yuck! I'd
not want a computer I couldn't easily pull apart, and I'd not
want one without proper expansion (not Useless Serial Botch). Heck, I've
even played about with the processor bus in HP handheld calculators...
My laptop is purely a software machine. In fact, it's purely a
*text* machine; I run freeBSD, everything stored as ASCII, perl scripts to drive anything complex. Portable from
machine to
machine. I have things that are purely hardware too.
Oh, I certainly agree with you there :-)
-tony
The stuff I want is rarely built in, because no
sane person would want it...
Sane people? Who needs them? From them we get malls, fast food
insurance forms, and warfare.