Re: inpout32
- Posted by katsmeow 3 weeks ago
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I'm curious if it's specifically the lawn mower step that you saw it not working (which might be a good example of sneaking in a "move the goal posts" sort of thing), or did you see an issue with the earlier steps discussed too (like turning a fan on the roof, or stuff related to your car engine)?
The list was huge, and would be growing, but i threw it away as not achieveable. If i didn't randomly pick a different line item each time, you'd fixate on one controllable item when the issue is the connection from the computer to any of the items.
Very few think they need to connect anything to a computer except a keyboard and a mouse. Therefore, neither Microsoft nor the consumer computer industry have any interest in making specialized interfaces...
Since when is a 8-bit parallel port or RS-232 serial port (for that mouse and keybd) specialized? You know what would be wonderfully "specialised"? A selection of small sbc that restore the olde parport support of EU, and solve some 30 year old deficiencies of it.
And you know what? I'd offer the same $1000's of money i offered for car (i have had no transportation since Feb 2024, when two vehicles died) for parport of the 8086, 286, 386, 486... up till they took it away and gave us only usb ports, and locked them down in software. But you'd rather sit back and whine about me asking for it than re-establish OE's connectivity to the real world. Just like hearing every excuse possible for not selling me a car, truck, or ride to the local bank, basically what i hear here is variations on "anyone can do it, so no one will" or "spend a lot of time on 1000 different possibilities we can list but not prove can work, because no one here will". But i have been blowing money on a mail-order motorcycle and parts to make it disabled-accessable, on a "fixed income". I can easily picture the 400lb bike falling over on me at age 70, and people standing around "educating" me on bone density and gravity while i lay crushed under the bike, when the problem has been "why won't you sell me the car you advertise for sale?". Or discussing "living off grid" because a neighbor turns loose wolf hybrids, german shepards, rottwilers, and boxers, so i cannot mow around the water meter, so the water co turned the water off. So this forum goes on about "mower? changing goalposts!", so drinking water costs me 4x as much when i have Walmart deliver it one gallon at a time. Yes, i can buy gallon jugs of water on a credit card and have it delivered, but cannot do the same with a car or taxi/bus/van ride or OE code. This forum makes excuses the same way humans do in real life.
Kat
