2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
4:04 p.m.
On Fri, December 2, 2005 5:36 pm, Chuck Guzis said:
For those of us who like to play with homebrew
hardware, one of the
handiest general-purpose interfaces out there is the PC parallel port I I
suspect its also why a lot of engineers keep a copy of MS-DOS somewhere in
their files). Articles for how to create some simple device attaching to
the PC parallel port still appear in EDN's "Ideas for Design" section.
What comparable facility is there on the new Macs?
Nothing, because they're not aimed at people who play with homebrewed
hardware, neither I suspect are current PCs because that's not where the
money is. New Macs are aimed at the market they've always been aimed at -
graphics and media. Mac Minis are aimed at people who just use PCs for
browsing/email/office/light graphics/music.
of things to come. A small sealed box and a desktop
littlered with other
boxes. Don't know about wires--maybe it'll all be Bluetooth.
Have you seen reports of the new Acorn RiscOS machine that is a
cassette-sized metal box containing everything you need to do mac mini
type stuff? Well worth checking out and I wish I could remember the URL of
the article I was reading! It'll be buried somewhere in
www.theregister.co.uk or www.silicon.com or www.theinquirer.net :)
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?