From: roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 18:02:09 PDT
To: Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU (Richard Johnson)
Subject: Re: Hardware generators was: your mail
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In list.cypherpunks, quoth Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU (Richard Johnson):

>   From the keyboard of:  roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org (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.
- -- 
Roy M. Silvernail  []  roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org

                          It's just this little chromium switch.......

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