Re: [LUG] Where to buy Mac hardware?

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:02, you wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> > Hmm, doesn't sound bad - *almost* within my budget!  Just need to build a
> > little robotic carousel to store and load the discs and write a linux
> > driver ;-)
> >
> > Hey, almost seriously, does anyone sell this kind of thing?  I know that
> > you can buy tape backup robots for umpteen thousands of pounds, but has
> > anyone got any ideas on how I could build a little robot to pick 'n'
> > place discs?
> >
> > <falls from fantasy land with a crash>  Ouch!
> >
> > Jon
>
> How about some lego and a copy of BBC Basic? :)


Hmm, funny, I was kinda thinking along those lines.  Maybe not BBC basic, 
though... used to program in that in primary school but have progressed a bit 
now (mainly PHP and Perl).  Mind you, I don't know how to address serial 
ports, I used to be able to do that on a BBC Micro 8-)

Jon

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