Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the everyone-loves-tivo dept.
aagha writes "According to this story on CNET's News.com, two Texas companies will offer software to give your PS2, Tivo-like functionality." I'm all for anything that gets more people PVRs or PS2s ;) Course I think the next GTA and Tony Hawk will do more for the cause of the PS2.
I got the image of an 80's model IBM PS/2 with Transformers Armadda being recorded on it!
-- Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Re: OT :Re:Another use...
by
youngerpants
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· Score: 4, Funny
go to http://www.linuxplay.com/ and fork out £200 of your hard earnt money
wait 6 months
get kit
discover you dont have a sync-on-green monitor and spend a further £250 for a cheap one
install PS2 linux and discover you have deleted all your saved data from your memory card
easy
Micro Channel Architecture finally pays off...
by
dpbsmith
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· Score: 4, Funny
(Oh, wait, they're talking about some OTHER "PS2.")
(Am I the only one to whom that initialism evokes the memory of the behemoth of personal computers, and the marvellous Micro Channel, with powers beyond imagination waiting to be unlocked by OS/2? Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Now PS2 means a game machine... and DEC, the Dairy Equipment Corporation of Madison Wisconsin, founded in 1947, lives on today, while another company of the same name is but a memory.
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Also, I'm sure it breaks at least 65536 patents.
because then you wouldn't be able to get your story posted on slashdot.
So, I currently use my PS2 for
1) PS2 Linux
2) DVD Player
oh and 3) Playing games
and now its going to be a tivo
I cant wait for the coffee making functionality, mowing the lawn add on and DNA cloning plug in
I got the image of an 80's model IBM PS/2 with Transformers Armadda being recorded on it!
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
go to http://www.linuxplay.com/ and fork out £200 of your hard earnt money
wait 6 months
get kit
discover you dont have a sync-on-green monitor and spend a further £250 for a cheap one
install PS2 linux and discover you have deleted all your saved data from your memory card
easy
(Oh, wait, they're talking about some OTHER "PS2.")
(Am I the only one to whom that initialism evokes the memory of the behemoth of personal computers, and the marvellous Micro Channel, with powers beyond imagination waiting to be unlocked by OS/2? Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Now PS2 means a game machine... and DEC, the Dairy Equipment Corporation of Madison Wisconsin, founded in 1947, lives on today, while another company of the same name is but a memory.
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