Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:06:34 05/25/99
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On May 24, 1999 at 22:05:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 24, 1999 at 21:00:56, Roger D Davis wrote: > >>Seems that some people think installation will be a bear and others think it's a >>minor issue. It occurred to me that maybe the DB chip could be put into a box >>about the size of my Iomega Zip drive, or just a little larger, and plugged into >>the USB port. Then there would no hardware installation problem, and the thing >>would be portable, too. So carry it back and forth to your local chess club, >>maybe even run it on your laptop on an airplane. Take it wherever. Seems to me >>that would solve a lot of problems, if it could be done. >> >>And that gives it another advantage over the micros: You can't often legally >>install software on multiple computers for easy portability. With a DB box, all >>you'd need to install would be the basic software needed to interface with the >>box, just like Iomega the Iomega Tools disk, for example. >> >>Possible? >I think the only problem with this scheme is that you would have to have all the >memory for the chip included in the box as well. Seems that it might be >expensive to do it that way. The parallel port would be *way* too slow to store >the data to and from memory. Basically, you would have to have a PC in the >little box, along with the Hsu chips, I think. That is clearly doable, since >they have PC-on-a-board implementations, but it would be a lot more expensive >than a card with a chip on it that uses the PC resources. It's clear that the parallel port would be too slow, but he suggested using the USB port. I doubt this would be fast enough either, but I am not informed: I don't really know how fast USB is. Dave
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