Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

["Julian Cassin" <ninjaturtle..REMOVETHIS..@optushome.com.au>]

Amiga 1200?

Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, T.J.T van Kooten wrote:
>
> |For the sake of argument let's suppose you could design a next generation
> |$300 homecomputer. The goal is to make a userfriendly machine for general
> |use and for hobbyists. How would such a system look?
>
> A box with a whole bunch of ports that all looked like 'phone jacks'
> and was intelligent enough to tell the user (with a speech synthesizer)
> what was available at each port.   If you needed to pass through more
> data than usual, just use more phone jacks.  Yep, phone jacks all
> over the place.  Just about *anybody* can figure out how to plug jacks
> in.  But it is very human to plug the wrong things in to the wrong
> sockets, so use the speech synthesis to tell him what's wrong.  Oh,
> and the audio ins and outs would be through phone jacks, too.
>
> And when it powers up properly, and is sufficiently initialized, says
> something like "Computer Okay."
>