Laptop as a controller?

[magnoliarichj]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13069624#post13069624 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by manderx
laptops/desktops just aren't reliable enough.

your nuts.. my pc runs 24/7/365 i built it my self and have 0 probs..... usually people have an underpowered pc for their needs and that were the problems lie. liek i want to run my aquarium do photo shop, burn mp3s all day and crush seti packets on my 486 with 10 megs of ram....

 

[ordy1]

Too bad you can't hook up your Mac to a AC jr. Running Windows on the Mac (Intel based) isn't a problem but getting a USB port to think it's a serial port is.

I have an old 386 based laptop connected to my AC Jr. via serial port(and yes i did purchase the filter for the serial port). It's constantly on and it makes viewing and making changes a snap.

That's a pretty impressive setup on the previous post.

 

[hebygb]

Thanks for all the help, links, ideas, and thoughts... This proves that there are a lot of brilliant people in this hobby. As a note... My old Mac powerbook is still running well and has been pretty much on for the last 8 years straight. That was a good point about stability of the OS, and even better about the potential instability of what I write.

I was hoping to cannibalize/repurpose/liberate something already created... guess not

Sounds like a controller is in my near future. Thanks for the dialogue.