In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>>I agree with you on this! The QL will not be making any kind of >>>resurgence. However, elements of the QL can go forward in other things, >>>and in such a way that the community benefits. If we had a really compact >>>embedded board with serial/IR keyboard/programming in BASIC (a bit like a >>>super BASIC STAMP module, but more powerful ;) it could sell by the >>>bucketload. >>> >>>It's all a case of what can we convince people to buy, and still benefit >>>the community from. >> >>Yes, there is a market in this kind of specialism ... provided it can be >>programmed from any 'mainstream' computer host. >> >>The Lego Mindstorms 'brick' is a popular one right now. >Yes - the 'RCX' >It is desperately unsophisticated of course, only 3 I/O lines, very >inaccurate clock, and not dirt cheap. >There is C like (NQC - 'Not Quite C') language support for them - which >Ben (my 12 yr old son) uses. It is looking like I am going to be using it for a while ... as the Local Educational Authority are keen on it. I am just setting up a stand alone PC to run it from ... as I don't have the network version. >IBOX - the thought in the mind of me and Stuart, went a fair way down >this route. I even started building a prototype. >It was planned have Minerva/68xxx/pic. > >It was primarily for I/O but could easily have had keyboard and some >sort of display. > >and it would have fitted inside a 36 way D housing. There is potential in a dedicated hardware solution, for educational and elsewhere ... as long as it interfaces to a PC, as well as anything else. -- Malcolm Cadman
