life Cycle

[laine@shell.rmii.com (Laine Houghton)]

John L. Graham (fl332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:

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: Other projects I'd like to hack on are a cloud-cover monitor, seismometer,
: and a magnitometer (which would be helpful in predicting aurora). Way
: out on the fringe would be a sensor to monitor meteor activity by radio.
: In addition to being just plain interesting, the data from the Apple II
: can be easily ported to the Mac or PCs for additional processing or making
: pretty graphs.

: Neat stuff!

: John

These are the kind of things I was thinking of. Way back when for what we
paid for our computers. Few of us were willing to spend additional large
dollars for x-10 modules and the like and let our expensive silicon
burn on endlessly without our participation.

Today is a different story. //e's for 2 bits and where are those modules
now?

The future of the //e, //c is not the killer app. It's the killer card.
Produce a wiz-bang card in the $100 range and people will be digging
in the trash cans to get the computer.

Laine...