cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Tony Duell wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't know, old PC's are a dime a dozen. Still TTL buffers is all you
> >> really
> >> need for I/O if you don't mind wasting the high order byte.
> >
> > OK, I actuially have a US dime somwhere. Please tell me where I can
> > exchange it for  12 PCs capable of running FPGA or CPLD development software.
> >
> > -tony
> >
> 
> Atmel software is still free the last time I looked, running on a modest
> windows PC. PC's ... see your local dumpster.

As far as I know, you do not live in London (England). So I can't see how 
you can tell me that PCs are available in the 'local dumpster'/

FWIW, dumpster diving is illegal in the UK. THat however, is secondary to 
the fact that we have a WEEE direcrtive that means we have to recycle 
electronic equipment and not throw it in the skip/dumpster. And I have 
_never_ seen a PC in a skip/dumpster in London (and I am certainly not 
going to trespass on various company sites to see if I can steal one).

Also, unless I missed something, Windows isn't free. I I doubt that if I 
found a junked PC that happeend to have a runnable copy of Windows on the 
hard drivce the ntat would count as a valid Windows license. I don't 
particulalry care for Windows, or any Microsoft product for that matter, 
but that doesn't give me the right to pirate them.

-tony