Why does the Raspberry Pi exist?

Even an old PC is worth more than a new RPi and there aren't too many I/O busses that can be directly written to, they take a shit load of power to run, and you normally can't throw them in your backpack to play with at home. If all they were interested in was pushing Python programming, then sure, old PC's good, learning to talk to a DS1307 RTC, old PCs bad.

I was replying to the reasons for not being able to take the PC home (mummy would have to bring the Chelsea Tractor to carry it) and experimenting with robotics-type tricks never did work with a PC (ever tried interfacing anything to the ISA or the PCI bus)?

I suggest you read thread -1 again: you're rather late to this particular party.

Now there is, but there was a short time before Linux when I had to run DRDOS (couldn't afford anything else). Then someone produced TECOC for DOS, and I used that to add a little intelligence to the DOS command interpreter, then I started to use Linux but without TECO. After a few years of automatically and unthinkingly hitting Alt at the end of any editing command (which of course didn't have any useful effect since it wasn't TECO) I began to forget the latter. Today about all I remember is ebfilename.ext$ and a$$ and ht$$

But I still have a little TECO card summarising the TECO commands and the variants for different DEC Oses. Maybe it's a valuable antique :-)

Same for me - at one time long ago I was 'attached staff' at an atomic energy research establishment.

Nowadays I wonder exactly what they may have got up to back then.

Noted; thank you.

'Cos you may have PATA devices bought several years ago, DVD drives for example. (Though I've an idea that some/most PATASATA adpators are bidirectional so could be used with a USB-SATA adaptor to connect a PATA drive).

If I connect a lot of stuff, neither it nor anything else is likely to allow me to listen to Radio 4 on long wave. (My fast NiMH charger blocks it, as does a nearby CFL until that warms up).

Surely we've all been joined in already, by virtue of our use of Usenet to discuss technical matters.

I'm delighted to hear that. I was lucky enough to get involved with computers (a very early PDP8) at a time when one had to learn, in fact largely teach oneself, all the nuts and bolts in order to achieve anything at all. I've been convinced for years that that was a huge advantage for me, and the Pi is obviously going to allow new generations to do much the same.

No, I'm afraid we know that you're not.

So you get a cheap USB3.5"IDE/2.5"IDE/SATA adaptor. They work well.

I do - and my cheap USB-SATA adapter also does 2.5" & 3.5" PATA. But the OP was only asking about SATA.

In a mad moment - Windmill mumbled :

If you want "Premier Membership" look up last weeks "Register", the article requesting a whistle blower to contact them, and giving their public key. Just send an encrypted message wishing them well. Oh - and your public key of course.

Hmmm. I wonder how good they are at tracking ISP changes. I've had a fair few, starting out as CIXen. :P

Here you go: 1 FWSE away...

CACLS /T

HTH

ITYM Zork. HTH. PIP PIP!

On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:12:24 +0100, "Stanley Daniel de Liver" declaimed the following:

Hmmm... I may check it this weekend, though it is old enough that Win7 isn't mentioned (much less Win7-64)

Want to run zork? use "frotz"

Unless you really need wordstar give "joe" a try its, wordstar mode is fairly close to the real thing.

There's "fuse-emulator" and "gngb" but apparently no emulators for "serious" Z80 based computers.

I seem to recall running forth under a CP/M emulator 3 or 4 debian releases ago, the current absense of a CP/M emulator is mysterious, it was AIUI an open platform, display was a VT52 which "xterm" can emulate

OTOH you can probably run CP/M-86 in "bochs".