Actually, you're thinking about the Commodore PET. If you POKEd a particular byte into a CRTC register, you could increase the scan frequency of the video signal. Problem is, the monitor (which was built into the PET) was fixed-frequency. Apparently they don't fail particularly gracefully either...
The problem with Canon is they don't release the programming specs. HP and Epson's standing is basically "Here's the manual, now go write a driver", while Canon's is more along the lines of "You don't need to know that".
I've been using the Epson Kowa Linux drivers - sure, they're not 100,000% open-source, but I don't care. They work. Better than gimp-print in some cases.
My favourite keyboard? A Dell AT102W. I found a computer shop that had a bunch of them NIB - bought two. They are very nice - ALPS keyswitches, clicky feel, lovely *SNAP* sound... Absolutely impossible to type quietly on, and it's got Dell's logo on it, but I guess you can't have everything:)
Click the link and you land on the guy's homepage. Click through to "News" from there and under "Data Security 101" is the message:
What you seek is no longer here, it was once but is not anymore.
Soo... Did anyone save a copy?
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Actually, you're thinking about the Commodore PET. If you POKEd a particular byte into a CRTC register, you could increase the scan frequency of the video signal. Problem is, the monitor (which was built into the PET) was fixed-frequency. Apparently they don't fail particularly gracefully either...
The problem with Canon is they don't release the programming specs. HP and Epson's standing is basically "Here's the manual, now go write a driver", while Canon's is more along the lines of "You don't need to know that".
I've been using the Epson Kowa Linux drivers - sure, they're not 100,000% open-source, but I don't care. They work. Better than gimp-print in some cases.
My favourite keyboard? A Dell AT102W. I found a computer shop that had a bunch of them NIB - bought two. They are very nice - ALPS keyswitches, clicky feel, lovely *SNAP* sound... Absolutely impossible to type quietly on, and it's got Dell's logo on it, but I guess you can't have everything :)
Click the link and you land on the guy's homepage. Click through to "News" from there and under "Data Security 101" is the message: What you seek is no longer here, it was once but is not anymore. Soo... Did anyone save a copy?