[GTALUG] pigs with wings

[phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca]

If it has a parallel port, that will be *really* attractive for running a
CAD-CAM milling machine. The demand on the machine is minimal, so just
about anything from a 486 system on will work just fine.

P.


> What, Hugh throws a computer out? Noooooo!
>
> If it has a parallel port, I know people who use computers of a similar
> age
> for real-time control in art and music shows. FreeDOS seems to be the OS
> of
> choice for those lovable weirdos.
>
> Then again, I was at a retro computing meetup the other week where someone
> demoed a perfectly working Friden 132 calculator from the mid-60s. It had
> an acoustic delay line for memory, and the keyboard physically locked
> while
> calculating.
>
> Cheers
> Stewart
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