Emulation or the real thing?

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Tue Oct 20 20:06:12 1998

>
> I don't think this is so much of a fantasy. Its a lot of work, but it
> could be done (ok, save for the Scent Printer part).
>
well, if you could convince one of those "automatic air freshener"
companies that sell the mist things to make a unit that would give off
"computer smells", you may be in business. just add a solenoid to the top
of each aeresol can topus the button for that particular smell, wire them
into a parallel interface, and you'd be in business.

Just trying to convince them would be the fun part.

Anyway, it's still better when you get to work with the actual equipment,
and having the thrill of finding a 'scope in the trash and fixing it, or
finding scrap parts, throwing something together, and possibly building the
next Cray - complete with 46 K RAM, and a 20 MB HD - all for under $30, and
housed in an old washing machine - also pulled from the curb :^)
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         -Jason
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Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 20:06:12 BST