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Ancient and obscure hardware geekery (Was: Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac)
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Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:56:14 GMT
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In article <slrnac8tvk.9q0.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu>,
Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> Or, better, get a PC Weasel <http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html>, which
> emulates a video card (VGA for the PCI version, MDA for the ISA) and a
> keyboard during boot and sends the data <-> its serial port -- allowing you
> to access the BIOS config program. And then when it detects the OS trying to
> initialize its serial port, it switches over to using that. Way cool.
Yeah, but the _cheap one_ is $250! I have a Lego habit to support!
Seriously, though, one more reason why it wasn't a bad idea to replace
the old 486 firewall with a hundred bucks worth of Linksys filtering
router. :)
On the other hand, I begin to think my webserver needs one of these...
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
jd@forinash.not ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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