Like you I was think if they could make a dual layer CD-R that you would flip and burn the label on then they have somthing. Wold be worth it also would protect the disk since both layers would be under plastic instead of only one and the other laquere.
But its a Marketing geek item over value type of thing.
Wonder if they will move it over to DVD Burnner when they get cheeper?
Actually there are two schemes for hookup of one of these old standard LCD. basically either you feed it the full 8 bits or 4 bits. There a ton of info on the net esp from the mfg. Most uses the 4 bit data scheme.
The ones that are tough are the graphic based ones since there is a lot more data to make it display and most dont have onboard controllers. 32 x 128 with a controller can be had as low as 3 dollars in surplus places.
I have seen this for Decades. Not Years but decaded! Every few years there is a scheme to try to make somthing ovious ovious and failes. I have program just about everthing from A to Z more than once. Each is unique and different.
1) Know what you want and where you are going! You CANT program in the dark or a vaccum. It must be in the mind before its in code. Like a panter or sculpture no ideay nothing on media. 2) Tell marketing to get its order in early! Else get lost! 3) Build on solid sections. Not quicksand or swamp. Else you will sink! 4) Think a few seconds on it. Measure twice cut one. 5) Value Engeering. Remove all parts not need to function. 6) DONT OVER-ENGIEER IT! This creates bloat and each line of code can be a bug. 7) Bandages are for human not programs. 8) Solid core first. Fluff never! 9) Programming does not conform to the physical world and cant be times. 10) Never ask a problem if its a problem. It always lies! 11) Tie modules through some easy to interface key connections. Complex interfaces creates bugs. Look at a 74xx TTL series chips. A ton of ccompanys make it internally there way but they all interface the same. Simple. 12) Just because X company has that in their product does not mean you need it. Greed and envey is bad!
On the last one. I had a program that was simple, elegant and worked. Did not have the ten billion unneeded features the other had. But mind did one thing theirs did not and that it did not fail on the main function the client bought it for! There is too much junk out there that makes a Swish Arm knife look like a piker on functions Esp when all you want is a blade to cut somthing.
Windows should not be a be all-end all everthing but what it started out to be a std user interface. Not a Swish Army knife with blades for everthing. That is marketing talking over engieering and leads to disaster.
A car has been engeered to do one function very well in a certain window of opperation. It does not fly, float or darn your socks but gets you from point A to point B. Same for software. A compiler uses this concept. Anything not inside its fence is an error. Simple. Windows... Too much trying to do too much and failling at it core function.
I recommend two books: Mythical Man Month. Code Complete.
Both have solid what works and what does not examples.
Actually Tiger Direct late last year was blowing out the iPaq that had SSDrives, a 10" lcd and hcable like crazy for 99 dollars. There is a forum that cover this.
Heck people were installing linux and even W98 on 16MB CF and even had a HD IDE hookup to run W98 from the drive.
There are some of the new iTX form factor boxes that have 12v in and convery for the rest inside of the box. Most have SVIDEO & Composit out. I though I saw some base unit a bit over 100 but ould be only for the MB-CPU-Ram.
Was thing along the same lines! Add somthing like a adapter to hag some CompacFlash off of the IDE port. Sweet!
A specilize bios that did this or MP3 etc would be hot! Knd of like a boot rom on a net card.
Its almost a embeded system at this level.
With the iTRX micro standard and this would be greate.
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Why a S100 bus junk? Should have gone with a better designed SS50 board layout. It took half of the cabinet just to put enough board to make it some what usfull and the rest of it for a non swithcing PS to just power the wreck!
If he want can ship him a few Soroc terminals. One or to may still be alive! His cost.
With this and the Vacumn Tube amp MB did some one switch the wayback machine in reverse? ^_^
I remember RCA { when they were Radio Corp of America! } created a video disk system based on a touching stylus device. Only got about 30 plays and was a real pain in the neck. LD were superior and ate them up.
I remember IBM's punch card punch machines and readers. The jamming, ripping etc! No way! Not again! Esp a serice call of 180 dollars!
I know its off the path but looking for some hobby stuff at Toys R us I saw somthing I had wish for when I saw the Jetson in the 60. A snap together modle kit of the saucer car with family figures! Goes for about 10 dollars.
Dident the guy for DS9 that did the IBM ads have one about flying cars they promest us fly cars?
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I though IBM was getting out of the Hard Drive market?
Punchcards and now this. Funny!
IBM... It Beats Me, I Bought Macntosh or even I Brought Money.
Actualy if they:
Remove the ten ton's of usless features and junk.
Cleaned up the API so it makes sense in spots.
Put an underlining system to monitor and protect the core from coruption.
And have it so you could start with a basic simple core and add on with out making too big of a mess.
This would litterly burn rubber even on a 800mhz system. Also it would keep the "Undocumented Features" down to a reasonable level.
Most of the people usualy use about 10% of the features in any given software package.
Also a "stamped" cd is multil layer. They just pick the side with the least amount of error on.
So a double sided -R may be possible and still be in spects.
Heard about this tech late last year in some mag.
Like you I was think if they could make a dual layer CD-R that you would flip and burn the label on then they have somthing. Wold be worth it also would protect the disk since both layers would be under plastic instead of only one and the other laquere.
But its a Marketing geek item over value type of thing.
Wonder if they will move it over to DVD Burnner when they get cheeper?
Woops! Someone alreaddy posted this site! rats! :)
Actually there are two schemes for hookup of one of these old standard LCD. basically either you feed it the full 8 bits or 4 bits. There a ton of info on the net esp from the mfg. Most uses the 4 bit data scheme.
The ones that are tough are the graphic based ones since there is a lot more data to make it display and most dont have onboard controllers. 32 x 128 with a controller can be had as low as 3 dollars in surplus places.
Hum. I though XP home did not have the two monitor stuff? Only the older windows and XP Pro does.
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Try this link to one of the ITX sites. There current waht to do with a iTX MB uses a ton of led and one hugh LCD pannel.
http://www.miniitx.com/projects/spacecase/defau
I have seen this for Decades. Not Years but decaded! Every few years there is a scheme to try to make somthing ovious ovious and failes. I have program just about everthing from A to Z more than once. Each is unique and different.
1) Know what you want and where you are going! You CANT program in the dark or a vaccum. It must be in the mind before its in code. Like a panter or sculpture no ideay nothing on media.
2) Tell marketing to get its order in early! Else get lost!
3) Build on solid sections. Not quicksand or swamp. Else you will sink!
4) Think a few seconds on it. Measure twice cut one.
5) Value Engeering. Remove all parts not need to function.
6) DONT OVER-ENGIEER IT! This creates bloat and each line of code can be a bug.
7) Bandages are for human not programs.
8) Solid core first. Fluff never!
9) Programming does not conform to the physical world and cant be times.
10) Never ask a problem if its a problem. It always lies!
11) Tie modules through some easy to interface key connections. Complex interfaces creates bugs. Look at a 74xx TTL series chips. A ton of ccompanys make it internally there way but they all interface the same. Simple.
12) Just because X company has that in their product does not mean you need it. Greed and envey is bad!
On the last one. I had a program that was simple, elegant and worked. Did not have the ten billion unneeded features the other had. But mind did one thing theirs did not and that it did not fail on the main function the client bought it for! There is too much junk out there that makes a Swish Arm knife look like a piker on functions Esp when all you want is a blade to cut somthing.
Windows should not be a be all-end all everthing but what it started out to be a std user interface. Not a Swish Army knife with blades for everthing. That is marketing talking over engieering and leads to disaster.
A car has been engeered to do one function very well in a certain window of opperation. It does not fly, float or darn your socks but gets you from point A to point B. Same for software. A compiler uses this concept. Anything not inside its fence is an error. Simple. Windows... Too much trying to do too much and failling at it core function.
I recommend two books:
Mythical Man Month.
Code Complete.
Both have solid what works and what does not examples.
I though I saw this here a few months ago?
I though Fry's was first. Hard to find a tape at the local place thats not blank.
You know when your old when some of that stuff you used or have seen in person!
What no S50 bus computer? Just the S100 stuff?
Wonder why no pickett slide rules?
Color computer were the same way. Funny that M$ created the "OS-Basic" for it! ;) But Microware muck it up for CC3! Oh well.
I am hopping when the micro MB/Cases like iTX pop out thing like roll you own specific task computers will finaly be a reality!
Actually Tiger Direct late last year was blowing out the iPaq that had SSDrives, a 10" lcd and hcable like crazy for 99 dollars. There is a forum that cover this.
Heck people were installing linux and even W98 on 16MB CF and even had a HD IDE hookup to run W98 from the drive.
There are some of the new iTX form factor boxes that have 12v in and convery for the rest inside of the box. Most have SVIDEO & Composit out. I though I saw some base unit a bit over 100 but ould be only for the MB-CPU-Ram.
Its a greate demo. A bit pickey on NET card and video but greate to bypass a HD to check items out.
Was thing along the same lines! Add somthing like a adapter to hag some CompacFlash off of the IDE port. Sweet!
A specilize bios that did this or MP3 etc would be hot! Knd of like a boot rom on a net card.
Its almost a embeded system at this level.
With the iTRX micro standard and this would be greate.
Why a S100 bus junk? Should have gone with a better designed SS50 board layout. It took half of the cabinet just to put enough board to make it some what usfull and the rest of it for a non swithcing PS to just power the wreck!
If he want can ship him a few Soroc terminals. One or to may still be alive! His cost.
With this and the Vacumn Tube amp MB did some one switch the wayback machine in reverse? ^_^
The orginal StarTrek had Plexglass storage also!
Remember all of the little color plastic square's they used for storage?
Last week it was tube for finals on a motherboard. This week its punchcards. I shudder about next week!
The problem is that IBM hard drive just dont meet spec. Neither speed or life. Esp the mess on that one model that died very quickly.
It would need to be optical.
I remember RCA { when they were Radio Corp of America! } created a video disk system based on a touching stylus device. Only got about 30 plays and was a real pain in the neck. LD were superior and ate them up.
I remember IBM's punch card punch machines and readers. The jamming, ripping etc! No way! Not again! Esp a serice call of 180 dollars!
I know its off the path but looking for some hobby stuff at Toys R us I saw somthing I had wish for when I saw the Jetson in the 60. A snap together modle kit of the saucer car with family figures! Goes for about 10 dollars.
Dident the guy for DS9 that did the IBM ads have one about flying cars they promest us fly cars?
Got it right!
There is one heck of a VW Disel car that get super millage but missed on one smog item for the state of CA.
With excelent millage combined with low emission stuff is the key.
I had totaly forgot the window people. Drop the neon and just the warm glow of a pare of tubes inside!
I would liie to see the guys that cooked up this thing when they presented the idea!
Can just see ebay now. Tube testes are goign to sell like hotcakes! And RS will need to find all of those old stand up tube testes.
Hum... Wonder if it is a Russan made tube. The US droped most of those decades ago.