Re: Nibble copy for other formats?

[osgeld <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:44:13 PM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 3/12/2013 10:33 PM, nyder wrote:
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> > Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices if you want to keep your old computers interfacing with your new computers.
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> Yep.  They're called "bridge computers."  The retro lifestyle gets kind 
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> of hard without them.  Sometimes wild devices come along (i.e. the 
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> FC5025) that span a few generations.  But one day... USB will be gone 
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> too.  And what comes after that.

I lucked into a vortex86, a x86 compatible pentium based 800 Mhz cpu, 1 gig ram , XGA, network, USB, ps2, 1 parallel port, 32 bit GPIO, and 8 (yes 8) com ports all in a 3.5 inch form factor.

Thats my bridge to the retro bench, but even though its old, obsolete, and not made anymore, you can expect to spend a couple hundred since they were used in industrial control, which is like saying rare + vintage

but on the flip side, my 8 core 4 ghz bulldozer has com and printer ports as a pin header, so they are not gone yet