2 Nov
2007
2 Nov
'07
2:41 p.m.
On 2 Nov 2007 at 16:18, Doc Shipley wrote:
Would it be practical to have some sort of
removable storage - flash
drive, CF, or whatever - act as the ROM? That way one could use a VT320
with a PDP-11 and a 3153 with an RS/6000, with no more trouble than
swapping CF cards.
The local recycler was selling mini Centrino(IIRC) PCs that had 256MB
DRAM, a USB port and video, mouse and keyboard connections. It may
also have had a floppy interface somewhere. Powered from a wall
wart, these were intended to host some sort of public web browser.
At the time, they were asking $5 the each. One could easily stick a
flash RAM dongle into the USB port.
Cheers,
Chuck