Does ANYBODY have a powered USB hub that has lasted MORE than 2 years?
We have more than 200 on site that fail on a regular basis.
Sigh.
I keep 10 on the shelf.
PCL 5.
Just yesterday spent X hours re-creating MSHOME workgroup on multiple computers so that the network (all other machines) can access the specialized 'shared' printer. No other sub $10,000 available options. Linux can't do it. Mac can't do it.
Doom, despair, depression, agony!
The regular website is soso but the iPad and phone version rocks out.
Multiple subjects constantly updated highly readable.
Very similar to an rss feed but better.
You answered for me.
The IBM and Apple were all add ons - and not portable.
Yes it was a Centronics/488 port on the Osborne.
The difference with the Kaypro was the OS - much easier on the Osborne - documented and software to accomplish it.
I suppose I should say instead 'The first COMPLETE (software and hardware out of the box) geekbuilt computer. Read the history of it - the thing was designed and built by garage geeks. They famously couldn't build them fast enough at launch.
Every other manufacturer had costly upgrades and add ons. I think their biggest error was choosing CP/M as the OS. It was being phased out even then.
Hey it wasn't about Adam Osborne. It was about the geek revolution you bozos.
This was the first -FIRST- computer designed by and for geeks. Adam Osborne was the sales guy. Had standardized ports, parts, etc. and as a previous poster mentioned it came with a wiring diagram. You could hook it up to anything else that existed in the day. Couldn't do that w/IBM, Apple, OR KAYPRO. Lots of jokes about Osbornes but I knew several engineers that brought them on site to the field and then lugged them back to the office. Nothing else could interface to the range of existing devices. Heck, I knew two profs who wrote serial port routines themselves to get data into it. Garage industries were born on these things.
You think Microsoft or the other boys came up with the idea to 'build your own'?
They saw what happened with the Osborne. They saw people hungry to build it and adapt it.
So the next time you are yanking around inside a pc case thank Adam Osborne.
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Does ANYBODY have a powered USB hub that has lasted MORE than 2 years? We have more than 200 on site that fail on a regular basis. Sigh. I keep 10 on the shelf.
PCL 5. Just yesterday spent X hours re-creating MSHOME workgroup on multiple computers so that the network (all other machines) can access the specialized 'shared' printer. No other sub $10,000 available options. Linux can't do it. Mac can't do it. Doom, despair, depression, agony!
The regular website is soso but the iPad and phone version rocks out. Multiple subjects constantly updated highly readable. Very similar to an rss feed but better.
You answered for me. The IBM and Apple were all add ons - and not portable. Yes it was a Centronics/488 port on the Osborne. The difference with the Kaypro was the OS - much easier on the Osborne - documented and software to accomplish it. I suppose I should say instead 'The first COMPLETE (software and hardware out of the box) geekbuilt computer. Read the history of it - the thing was designed and built by garage geeks. They famously couldn't build them fast enough at launch. Every other manufacturer had costly upgrades and add ons. I think their biggest error was choosing CP/M as the OS. It was being phased out even then.
Hey it wasn't about Adam Osborne. It was about the geek revolution you bozos. This was the first -FIRST- computer designed by and for geeks. Adam Osborne was the sales guy. Had standardized ports, parts, etc. and as a previous poster mentioned it came with a wiring diagram. You could hook it up to anything else that existed in the day. Couldn't do that w/IBM, Apple, OR KAYPRO. Lots of jokes about Osbornes but I knew several engineers that brought them on site to the field and then lugged them back to the office. Nothing else could interface to the range of existing devices. Heck, I knew two profs who wrote serial port routines themselves to get data into it. Garage industries were born on these things. You think Microsoft or the other boys came up with the idea to 'build your own'? They saw what happened with the Osborne. They saw people hungry to build it and adapt it. So the next time you are yanking around inside a pc case thank Adam Osborne.