Re: A sense of humor needs to be restored to these proceedings

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> From: "Elliot Burke" <elliot@...>
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[long discussion on making read head snipped]
That was pretty good; I'm going to file that someplace where there's a
chance I can find it again.

I had the read head for my Teledyne/Gurley DRO replaced recently. They
used 2 _teeny_ photocells on the PC board. Not really a lot to it.

> Finally, let me add my voice to those who think that a CD with RT Linux and
> EMC on it made as simple as possible to install is a good idea. Like, put
> in the disk, get a instant machine controller. Is this possible?

Not too likely with arbitrary hardware, unfortunately. It might work
if you said 'given this video card, any of these network cards, this
type of hardrive and CD', but most people wouldn't know the techy
details and it's hopeless taking a shopping list to a computer store.
Given the range of hardware out there, it's pretty amazing it works as
'painlessly' as it does (note the quotes around that). Heck, I have a
machine I'm working on now where Windoze won't even recognize the
mouse, serial _or_ PS/2. Probably a hardware glitch, but still a pain
...

How about a bundled system including the servo board as an option?
It's a lot easier to match up the software if you have the hardware
handy and it's the wide range of video cards available that makes
configuring X a pain. We end up building PC systems for folks locally
(Windows 9x with NT or Linux file servers, depending on what they
need). It's more interesting to build Linux systems.

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Paul Amaranth | Rochester MI, USA
Aurora Group, Inc. | Software Development
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