Showing of the Serial / MIDI / Wi-Fi card for the X16
I shared this on facebook yesterday, but for those that haven't seen it, I though you'd like to see me "go online" so to speak on the X16 using our new prototype Wi-Fi card.
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use bps, baud is the speed of change, its a mans name.. but 56kbps modems were not 56k baud they were 9600 baud, cause baud is just the rate at which data was encoded and sent.. Also the modems that connected to the phone, the uproute was 3k and downroute 5k . I started using modems in the late 80s, my local sysop was Pamela Trexler in Los Alamos.. She had a 25mhz 486 running a bbs. From an apartment near the old taco bell in Los Alamos.. There were not many BBS' in NEw Mexico during the 80s early 90s.. She eventually got a connection to the labs T3.. Those were the 500Kbyte/sec lines?? T1s were slower.. When I went to college at UNM in Albuquerque, I lived in the SRC (student resource living) on campus apartments, in the engineering arm, and every student in that apartment building had a T3 line running into their room.. I was using some audio broadcasting app to stream radio to people listening from the net.. But one of the guys made better use by selling sporting goods...
How well does the Wifi adapter work when it's inside a metal computer case?
I'm not sure. But the next version of the card will have an external antenna, so it won't matter.
Would you mind sharing how many X16 you have sold and shipped so far?
We’ve sold around 1,000 so far, but only shipped around 600.
That's pretty neat. It will make the computer much more useful even to younger nerds/geeks.
Can’t view on YouTube therefore can’t airplay it. ☹️
Nice usecase for the ESP boards.
Looking awesome!
Glad you went with the 16550 uart. That little FIFO makes all the difference.
I used the NMOS 6551 for my SBC to get around the infamous bug. But yeah...a real FIFO would be nice. :-)
Ooh, ooh. A seial card (that does midi). I want to try printing to a serial printer!
Wow! Great memories of BBS's and downloading JPEGs at 14.4 kbps
Your computer could decode JPEGs? And your modem was THAT FAST? So spoiled, you youngsters. :)
I got so psyched when I heard about this! I finally bought a Commander. If you don't mind a question, will we be able to connect to custom servers, at least eventually with this? I'm really hoping to develop with wifi as well.
Oh, also, one more question. Can you tell me the data rate per second this is capable of? I bet "MUDS" are going to be on people's wish lists, with or without graphics.
So cool that you have your own computer.
Bring back GeekBit Podcasts!
Yes, please! I loved that show.