On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Frengo wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:48:08 +0100 (MET), shevek wrote:
>
> Hi Shevek,
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >As you might know, I am programming some things for the joynet. Of
> >course
> >I would like everyone to have one joynet-cable per computer.
>
> Great idea :-)))
>
> Two Question :
>
> 1) How about using the Joynet cable to connect the MSX also to a PC
> (parallel port) ?
> I know there was just a cable to do that, but I think that Joynet is a
> standard...
I know cables like that have been made, although there is no standard
about it. Actually, I don't really see the use of it... If you want power,
you take a PC (or a unix, of course) and forget about MSX. If you want
fun, you take a MSX (or some other cool home computer).
> 2) Why not programming something to read a PC hard disk from a MSX ?
> It would be useful for MSX with no IDE o SCSI interface...
It would be really slow, it wouldn't work with normal things like
disk-roms and it wouldn't even be that much cheaper. An IDE interface
costs about 41 euros. A PC to MSX cable would cost about 8 euros. I agree
the difference is 33 euro, which is not little, but if you want a
harddisk, it is worth it...
Bye,
shevek
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