Does legacy free mean DVI connections only for the monitor.
There are simple convertors that adapt from DVI to the HD-DB15 connectors of normal monitors. I know they exist - I got one with my Radeon 9700 Pro. The DVI connector also carries an analog signal for this reason.
Simply put, I think that legacy devices are going to go away, at least in PC's. Maybe serial ports will remain, since some industrial applications use them - fine, add-in serial port cards, ISA even, since some hardware still uses ISA. Perhaps these sorts of things will fall into a niche market - something that like VIA could do maybe (just thinking anything now); a motherboard with ISA and serial ports, and a C3 or similar CPU built right in.
I hadn't used USB until maybe a year ago. Now I love it. My Epox 8RDA+ has 6 USB ports on the back - 4 are USB 1.1, 2 are USB 2.0. I've got my mouse, and Tacticalboard (gaming pad) plugged into the USB 1.1's on the motherboard itself, and my scanner is in the add-on bracket. I don't have any USB 2.0 devices yet. Maybe after the prices of those keychain-size USB 2.0 things comes down a bit I might get one of them; they sound nifty. Then I might be willing to give up the floppy drive on my main system. But I would still keep one on another computer in case I need to use mobile storage in DOS. That's something else I don't use much - now that I'm on WinXP and NTFS, DOS is useless because it can't see my hard drives.
Here's my legacy components right now:
- Keyboard (PS/2). It's a keyboard. It works; I like it enough that I've taken it apart and washed it, and changed the LED's to red, yellow, and green (a really nice green, not the normal crappy green that most computer LED's are). It's just a $7 Acer keyboard I got at a computer show some years back. If I need to go to USB, either I'll just get a new USB keyboard, or else I'll get one of
these expensive buggers. For that price, I'd just get a new keyboard.
- Kodak DC3200 digital camera - it takes about a minute and a half to transfer just one picture to the PC. That's at 115kbps = 14kilobytes per second. If that thing was just USB1.1, that'd be maybe a bit under 12Mbit/sec (1.5MB/sec). That could be almost 3 pictures per second! Ok, it may be less amazing in the real world - maybe, 1 every 5 seconds.
- floppy drive. Once those keychain USB things come down in price a bit, I'll get one. Or five or ten maybe.
Originally posted by: McCarthy
Like I said earlier, I'm changing my views. While still typing on a model M.
But I have no sympathy for any company that has changed over at present. Every time this discussion comes up the 'but some researchers/hospitals/companies need ISA, need serial, need parallel'. Well, nobody's told me why serial/parallel on a PCI expansion card won't work. They're around, just gotta look. Just like P4 boards with ISA are around.
Exactly -
dual serial PCI card