Apparently Sean has never had to fix a wonky VT200/220 terminal.
Most of the repairs for display issues required percussive maintenance due to bad/old solder joints. Far easier to drop the CRT from 4-12" onto a table than open the case, discharge the caps and tube, yadda.
Shut the hell up, Sean! You know exactly fuck-all about fixing delicate machinery.
I remember fixing a 486 that kept crashing by stabbing it 44 times in the side with a Philips head screwdriver. Worked like a charm. After that, I just called the computer "Tina", what with all the times I punched it.
And let's not forget the fact that any CRT monitor could be repaired by hitting the side of the enclosure really hard.
You cannot break electronics through so-called "abuse". If you hit a gadget and it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Anyone who says otherwise is a mincing panty-waisted limp-wristed fruit parfait.
Re: No. 7, I'm sure the kid was wearing friction proof OshKosh's. Anyway, if he was with me, he wouldn't be able to go limp. The deathgrip on his earlobe would keep his ass on his feet.
I'm more excited to see this on a MacBook Pro than the tablet.
So is the fiberoptic cable paired with a regular wire to allow for charging? As far as I know, light can't charge a device, unless Apple has decided the laws of physics has gotten in their way for long enough, and they are finally going to do something about it.
"Apple went to Intel and adopted USB for its original iMac...it made USB extremely popular."
So, if I am reading this article properly, it sounds like USB would not have been a success without Apple. All those PC's running out there would never have had the connectivity of USB if it were not for Apple??? Hmmm, I call bullshit on this one.
Now, I do like the concept of this, assuming that the cables can be rugged enough. I use fiber cables for various applications and they do ok but I do have concerns and have had some connections break do to improper handling. Hopefully they can make something that is as simple as USB with the speed of a direct connection to the controller of your choice...
@andrelix: Apple helped USB become mainstream for sure. Prior to the iMac, peripheral makers were content on continuing to crank out PS/2 mice and keyboards, parallel port printers, serial port modems and so on. Microsoft was also slow to adopt it, with Windows 98 being the first consumer OS to kinda have support for it.
I remember seeing USB ports show up on new Gateway machines in 1997. But nothing used them, including Gateways own included keyboard and mouse.
The popularity of the first iMac definitely helped push the adoption of USB. Manufacturers finally started making USB devices, and eventually the PC world started buying them too.
@andrelix: Your fanboyish post shows complete ignorance of the market during those days. While there were PCs with USB ports before Apple's iMac, there were no USB peripherals in the market. Companies kept building RS232, PS/2, and parallel ports shit for PCs, and showed no interest for USB. The iMac kickstarted the USB market because it had NO other port. It made it huge, with hundreds of peripherals coming in bondi blue and USB ports only. Then PC users started to buy those peripherals too.
Not to talk about the fact that Intel has publicly credited Apple with USB's success, thanks to the original iMac.
@Cliff_Dangers: They did. You fail to remember just how BIG the iMac was.
Much of Apples continued hype comes from what was basically a second coming of Apple. The iMac was 1984 all over again for the company, and peoples perception of the company.
There was bondi colored EVERYTHING, even non-computer products like vacuums. Anything hip in 98-99 had to have i in lowercase in front of it.
And yes making a computer that had ONLY USB and NO floppy really did change the computer market and made perheptual manufacturers get away from using serial/ADB/parallel/and PS/2 ports.
It wasnt instantaneous, but the iMac did make it happen.
@Jim Topoleski: Fanboy "BIG" does not equal Market Share "BIG". Apple does desreves credit for initiating the USB standard as viable, but it is a big stretch to say they made it happen. MS adopting the technology made it happen.
@Jim Topoleski: It's spliting hairs, but the point I am making is that unless your goal was to be "small company", the ultimate intent of manufacturers was to have their products embraced by M$ users.
@Jesus Diaz: Whoa there big boy, who is the fanboi? FWIW, I now have more macs in my house than PC's and my main box is a Mac Pro that runs both Windows 7 and OS/X. My point is nicely summed up below by Cliff_Dangers that 3.1% market share does not redefine an industry. The reality is that many of these peripherals started to gain market share AFTER windows acceptance of USB and more specifically after USB 2.0 which really became the usable standard.
I suppose these could also work as a step in between CAT6 and Fiber Optic Network cables right? Well it should seeing as it has Fiber in it (for speed anyway)... i wonder how expensive it would be to run these through walls of a house...
If we're still talking about this years after USB came into existence, it will never ever happen.
Universal Serial Bus, people. It's right in the name. USB was already supposed to be the "one port to rule them all". But as with anything in the tech industry, good luck getting everyone to agree.
@thepeopleselbow: People. Doesn't matter how good a technology is, you will never, and I mean never get every single device manufacturer and peripheral maker to sign off on a single standard that has even the tiniest bit of money attached to it.
Sony alone will likely screw this up by still pushing HDMI. You know, because they want DRM and content control built-in to the wires they used to hook up monitors and TVs. Not a chance in hell they'll just up and go with LightPeak for all their video needs and hand Apple the reigns.
Breast cancer is way way wayyyyy down the list of ailments and cancers that kill women, no idea why it gets so much publicity. Virtually every cancer (19 of them) are more of a problem and only 4 are less of a problem. Talk about marketing costing lives.
11/20/09
Most of the repairs for display issues required percussive maintenance due to bad/old solder joints. Far easier to drop the CRT from 4-12" onto a table than open the case, discharge the caps and tube, yadda.
11/20/09
If you're using an terminal program to access and run a VT220 session that's okay.
My first 'computer' was a 3270 terminal - more that 4 colours is a frill.
11/20/09
I've had many a sore quad and palm from this.
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I remember fixing a 486 that kept crashing by stabbing it 44 times in the side with a Philips head screwdriver. Worked like a charm. After that, I just called the computer "Tina", what with all the times I punched it.
And let's not forget the fact that any CRT monitor could be repaired by hitting the side of the enclosure really hard.
You cannot break electronics through so-called "abuse". If you hit a gadget and it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Anyone who says otherwise is a mincing panty-waisted limp-wristed fruit parfait.
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So is the fiberoptic cable paired with a regular wire to allow for charging? As far as I know, light can't charge a device, unless Apple has decided the laws of physics has gotten in their way for long enough, and they are finally going to do something about it.
10/08/09
"Apple went to Intel and adopted USB for its original iMac...it made USB extremely popular."
So, if I am reading this article properly, it sounds like USB would not have been a success without Apple. All those PC's running out there would never have had the connectivity of USB if it were not for Apple??? Hmmm, I call bullshit on this one.
Now, I do like the concept of this, assuming that the cables can be rugged enough. I use fiber cables for various applications and they do ok but I do have concerns and have had some connections break do to improper handling. Hopefully they can make something that is as simple as USB with the speed of a direct connection to the controller of your choice...
10/08/09
I remember seeing USB ports show up on new Gateway machines in 1997. But nothing used them, including Gateways own included keyboard and mouse.
The popularity of the first iMac definitely helped push the adoption of USB. Manufacturers finally started making USB devices, and eventually the PC world started buying them too.
10/08/09
Not to talk about the fact that Intel has publicly credited Apple with USB's success, thanks to the original iMac.
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Much of Apples continued hype comes from what was basically a second coming of Apple. The iMac was 1984 all over again for the company, and peoples perception of the company.
There was bondi colored EVERYTHING, even non-computer products like vacuums. Anything hip in 98-99 had to have i in lowercase in front of it.
And yes making a computer that had ONLY USB and NO floppy really did change the computer market and made perheptual manufacturers get away from using serial/ADB/parallel/and PS/2 ports.
It wasnt instantaneous, but the iMac did make it happen.
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You had to patch Win 98 to use USB. Even OS 9 allowed you to use USB without drivers for all but particular devices.
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I can see it on the Apple tablet and macs of next year!
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If we're still talking about this years after USB came into existence, it will never ever happen.
Universal Serial Bus, people. It's right in the name. USB was already supposed to be the "one port to rule them all". But as with anything in the tech industry, good luck getting everyone to agree.
Especially rallying behind Apple.
10/08/09
This technology is a speed boost, why won't that sell?
10/08/09
Sony alone will likely screw this up by still pushing HDMI. You know, because they want DRM and content control built-in to the wires they used to hook up monitors and TVs. Not a chance in hell they'll just up and go with LightPeak for all their video needs and hand Apple the reigns.
No. Friggin. Way.
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What an insensitive, ignorant prick.
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