[time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

David davidwhess at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 15:29:10 UTC 2012


Ah well, I missed it but only because I have seen other people make
the same suggestion seriously in the recent past.

Where is my box of 2102 DRAMs?  I left it around here somewhere.

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:15:32 -0400, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com>
wrote:

>David it was humor
>Regards
>
>On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM, David <davidwhess at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What aspects of USB would HP have used?  Just the complexity of a USB
>> OHCI/UHCI would have been economically prohibitive compared to an
>> asynchronous serial UART.  An OHCI/UHCI is more like an ethernet
>> controller and those took up the space of entire expansion boards
>> initially.
>>
>> What they did come up with was HP-IB although I would have preferred
>> it to be serial and galvanically isolated.
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:28:46 -0400, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I have never figured out why HP did not develop USB in 1969? Not very far
>> >sighted. ;-)
>> >Regards
>> >Paul
>> >WB8TSL



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