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Indeed, that's how basically everyone I knew growing up who managed to interface stuff to PCs did it. Except the one guy with a hand-me-down BeBox. That GeekPor
by systems_glitch 4y ago
Indeed, that's how basically everyone I knew growing up who managed to interface stuff to PCs did it. Except the one guy with a hand-me-down BeBox. That GeekPort was something to envy.
- VectorLock 4y agoI never got why the GeekPort didn't catch on more beyond BeBox, even as an add in card, given how ubiquitous the parallel port was for interfacing with simple external electronics.
- systems_glitch 4y agoYeah, there were tons of "basically a GeekPort for PCs" in the industrial control/test and measurement world, but not much aimed at home hackers or even really low-end experimentation. I don't know if that's a result of just the parallel port being used so often and it not being cost-effective, or what. In the pre-PC home computer world, there were products like that, and even in the early x86 ISA PC world, there were analog/digital I/O cards that didn't break the bank.