The particular UMPC used in the comparison was the Samsung Q1. The first commercial computer with a graphical user interface, it’s a most interesting machine with a most interesting history.ĬNET UK recently ran a rather interesting head-to-head showdown, deathmatch, cage-fight comparison between the much touted (by Microsoft) Ultra-Mobile PC (codename “Origami”) and the 10 year old Newton MessagePad 2000 from Apple. And it may have started life as an original Lisa Apple offered Lisa owners upgrades to the 3.5″ floppy-based Lisa 2, and most users took advantage. While this is not one of the elusive and highly valuable original Lisas employing a set of the curious Twiggy 5.25″ floppy drives, it is an interesting piece of computing technology. At any rate, besides enjoying the sun and watching the news, I was also negotiating the refurbishment and purchase of an Apple Lisa 2 computer, over e-mail down at the local WiFi-equipped coffee shop.Īnd, yes, it took me a full year to get the pics online. It was an odd and somber thing, enjoying the sunny weather outside on our vacation and coming in to watch the latest horrors taking place just a few thousand miles around the coast, in the Gulf. We took the same trip last year – actually, we arrived on the first day of Katrina. It’s nearly September, and we’re headed to the Outer Banks, NC for a week at the beach in a few days. UPDATE: It wasn’t balsa wood but PixelBlocks that came to the rescue on an enclosure…
Next step: construct a balsa wood enclosure painted flat black. See another user’s IO-Warrio project involving custom code pushing iTunes and EyeTV data from Mac to LCD. I made some free time this afternoon, pulled out the soldering iron, chopped up an old SCSI cable, and got things together. This weekend I received both the IO-Warrior 24 kit as well as the white-on-blue, LED-lit 4×24 LCD I ordered. Right now the only officially supported LCD controller is Code Mercenaries’ USB-based IO-Warrior.
That’s when I noted that external LCD support had been added to the program.
After upgrading from a dual G5 2.5 to a quad-core Mac Pro, I hit the Hardware Monitor website to grab a Universal version of the app. I’ve long used Bresink’s Hardware Monitor to keep a tab on the vitals of various Macs I’ve used in recent years.
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