guys, anyone who's not stuffed with straw and looking for the Wizard should see that the TRS-80 bit is a JOKE... C'mon, "Apache ported by monkeys" people, MONKEYS!
Quit it with the 'Hoax' comments.. a Hoax is generally something that sets out to be deceptive.. these guys are making no effort at deception.. the claims they're are making are too ludicrous to to be taken seriously.
I love the joke source too... very funny.
Congrats to the ppl involved.. a genuinely funny site.
Wondering.. I won't even pretend to be even a hobbiest electrical engineer, but i was thinking.. this thing has to get a power source from somewhere, right?? If we're talking embedded devices, you'd usually be talking household AC at some point. I have no idea how stable it is, but dosen't that cycle at 60Hz??
Feel free to laugh and call me a total idiot 'coz it's insanely inconstant if it is, but if you could split off a signal from the AC/DC converter that's powering the chip with each cycle, you'd have a 60hz clock.. that's also horribly slow too come to think of it... multiplying this thing by the 333,333.3.. to get it out to 20mhz would amplify those errors nicely too...
Ok... probably not such a good idea.. but an idea anyway
Why is it that whenever the Napster debate comes up, no-one ever seems to bring up a hideous beast that's been not only allowing people to listen to music without paying for it first, but actively encouraging it by sending it in an encoded format directly into homes everywhere! "Surely not", you might think.. "STRAIGHT into my house, into my HEAD??" That's right campers. This amazing technology (capable of beaming music directly to you) requires a very simple decoder, electronic schematics for which are easily available in any hobby shop, and which is even commercially produced (ironically, some of those companies that are involved in the RIAA are also producing these devices!!) These devices are known as "radios", and the music is transmitted via "radio waves" from "radio stations" The most ironic thing is that Sony (one of the major recording labels behind the Napster Crusade) are also regarded as one of the better manufacturers of those decoding devices called radios, and in fact pioneered the man-portable variants of these radios called the "walkman". Perhaps if Sony can develop a "Napman" we'll see the crusade over.
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guys, anyone who's not stuffed with straw and looking for the Wizard should see that the TRS-80 bit is a JOKE... C'mon, "Apache ported by monkeys" people, MONKEYS! Quit it with the 'Hoax' comments.. a Hoax is generally something that sets out to be deceptive.. these guys are making no effort at deception.. the claims they're are making are too ludicrous to to be taken seriously. I love the joke source too... very funny. Congrats to the ppl involved.. a genuinely funny site.
Wondering.. I won't even pretend to be even a hobbiest electrical engineer, but i was thinking.. this thing has to get a power source from somewhere, right?? If we're talking embedded devices, you'd usually be talking household AC at some point. I have no idea how stable it is, but dosen't that cycle at 60Hz??
Feel free to laugh and call me a total idiot 'coz it's insanely inconstant if it is, but if you could split off a signal from the AC/DC converter that's powering the chip with each cycle, you'd have a 60hz clock.. that's also horribly slow too come to think of it... multiplying this thing by the 333,333.3.. to get it out to 20mhz would amplify those errors nicely too...
Ok... probably not such a good idea.. but an idea anyway
Why is it that whenever the Napster debate comes up, no-one ever seems to bring up a hideous beast that's been not only allowing people to listen to music without paying for it first, but actively encouraging it by sending it in an encoded format directly into homes everywhere! "Surely not", you might think.. "STRAIGHT into my house, into my HEAD??" That's right campers. This amazing technology (capable of beaming music directly to you) requires a very simple decoder, electronic schematics for which are easily available in any hobby shop, and which is even commercially produced (ironically, some of those companies that are involved in the RIAA are also producing these devices!!) These devices are known as "radios", and the music is transmitted via "radio waves" from "radio stations" The most ironic thing is that Sony (one of the major recording labels behind the Napster Crusade) are also regarded as one of the better manufacturers of those decoding devices called radios, and in fact pioneered the man-portable variants of these radios called the "walkman". Perhaps if Sony can develop a "Napman" we'll see the crusade over.