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The cost of rewriting the software will surpass any energy costs of the working solution. Not to mention crafting the new hardware and utilizing old computer wi
by vogre 7y ago
The cost of rewriting the software will surpass any energy costs of the working solution. Not to mention crafting the new hardware and utilizing old computer will harm ecology too.
- tombert 7y agoWell, as I said, potentially an Apple II emulator might actually do the job depending on what the software is doing. This might be a fun thing to compute the numbers on.
- vogre 7y ago> The Apple II personal computer was introduced in 1977. One of its features was a compact, fanless switching power supply, which provided 38W of power at 5, 12, -5, and -12 volts Unless you are using Apple 2 emulator on Raspberry Pi, you won't get any modern computer working on 38W. Actually it has less power consumption than a lightbulb that is needed to light up the room where it stands.
- jonas21 7y agoThat's not really true. Pretty much any laptop these days will use less power -- much less if the display is off and it's not doing anything particularly demanding.
- Const-me 7y ago> you won't get any modern computer working on 38W Nitpicking, half of modern laptops consume something close to that, e.g. surface pro 4 36W, macbook air 30W.
- throwaway2048 7y agoConsidering that a CNC mill almost certainly has a custom hardware interface, its unlikely its possible to emulate with any kind of existing emulator.