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Re: Hardware generators was: your mail
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In list.cypherpunks, quoth [email protected] (Richard Johnson):
> From the keyboard of: [email protected] (Roy M. Silvernail)
>
>> If this were a dongle device, I'd want it on a parallel port. Many
>> machines don't have a spare serial port ...
>
> How about a SCSI device instead. Most UNIX boxes and Macs nowadays have
> a few unused SCSI IDs. The great majority of DOS machines with SCSI (all
> those new ones with CD-ROMs, etc.) have unused SCSI IDs. SCSI has the
> advantage of being rather fast, and is a cross-platform solution.
Now I have machine envy... (so SCSI here yet) But maybe a generalized
product line? SCSI and IDE, as well as parallel dongle. Whatever kind
of port you happen to have laying about. And not using up slots is
really a Good Thing. My 486 is full right now, and I use all of it, so
pulling a card isn't an option.
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Roy M. Silvernail [] [email protected]
It's just this little chromium switch.......
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