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Re: Handyboard and iMac
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:05:42 GMT
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Original-From:
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Fred G. Martin <fredm@SPAMCAKEmedia.mit.edu>
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way back randy did have it running on NeXT, before NeXTSTEP. the unix
sources are pretty clean; probably the only tricky part would be the
serial line access.
fred
In your message you said:
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> Hi all,
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> Do you remember me asking if the HandyBoard was working on an iMac with an US • B/Serial adapter?
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> Well, all the USB/Serial adapters have been back ordered for the last 4 month
s, so I was unable to find or try any of them ;^(. But I bought an iPort for $6
0 at my local Fry's (for more info in iPort see http://www.griffintechnology.co
m/), installed it inside my iMac, plugged my HB in it, fired up IC and it just
worked.
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> The iPort is not for the faint of heart: you have to disassemble your iMac in
order to remove the motherboard and put the iPort under it in the really tight
case. But hey, it worked and I can now ditch this crappy PC of mine...
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> On a completely different subject: has somebody compiled the freeware version
of IC for NeXTSTEP? I have a cube and a station at home, and I was wondering i
f somebody ever tried this hardware with IC?
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> -- Eric
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| Hi all, Do you remember me asking if the HandyBoard was working on an iMac with an USB/Serial adapter? Well, all the USB/Serial adapters have been back ordered for the last 4 months, so I was unable to find or try any of them ;^(. But I bought an (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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