The fan on my laptop quit the other day so I started looking around for a replacement computer. Looking on the Ebuyer website here in the UK it seems that most new laptops (especially the smaller ones) now only have usb outputs. There is a wonderful little acer computer just released very small, onboard radio network and cheap, but it just has usb ports so is not suitable.
I use a laptop because it is portable between my home and workshop (rather too grand a title , its a shed). I don't want to dedicate a large pc box to run my modest cnc needs (maybe I will have to) and I don't want to have to struggle carrying a large pc box between my home office and shed. So any suggestions for a cheap replacement computer. What is the smallest, cheapest desktop or laptop with a parallel port? I thought about using a pc/104 card but again here in the UK they seem to be quite expensive? Has anyone got experience using pc/104 ? So really my query is also about the future. Where will emc go if parallel ports become a thing of the past? Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
