[Amps] Alpha releases New Amp 9500

[Bill L. Fuqua]

If you can afford to buy the amp you can afford a converter.  USB is being replaced by Fire Wire. It wont be long till computers will not have USB ports or Fire Wire. These newer standards come and go very quickly. Unless you have to have very high speed data transfers they are not needed.  I find it interesting that people seem to believe the year 2000 was some boundary like the speed of sound or light and we have to suddenly change to some new extreme technology to past thru it.   BPL for example is one of the worst ideas yet. There have  been others that did not get very far from the drawing board.  There is a lot to be said about the tried and true technology.
Speaking of Commadore Computers. The PET had the latest technology for its disk drive interface in those days. They used IEEE488.  Not many computers after that chose IEEE488. Yes, it was fast  and allowed multiple devices to be on the same buss.  It just did not fare well on the computer market. 

73
bill wa4lav
 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Adkins <w4kv at yahoo.com>
To: amps <amps at contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:57:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Amps]  Alpha releases New Amp 9500

A number of us are still using Commodore and Atari computers.  Should Alpha--the avant-garde
amplifier company (their suggestion)--expand the new computer to accommodate them, too?  What
they're doing is not good marketing.  If Alpha is making a state-of-the-art amplifier, I would
expect it to be state-of-the-art.  I don't believe that it should require hams with today's
technology to retrofit their computers to allow serial ports.

Regarding USB troubles--they're there, but so are the troubles with serial ports.  Particularly
with IRQ assignments.  I prefer the USB.

Why bother with an upgrade if it ain't an upgrade.  Maybe the electronics will be an improvement.

John
w4kv

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heir suggestion)--expand the new computer to accommodate them, too?  What
they're doing is not good marketing.  If Alpha is making a state-of-the-art amplifier, I would
expect it to be state-of-the-art.  I don't believe that it should require hams with today's
technology to retrofit their computers to allow serial ports.

Regarding USB troubles--they're there, but so are the troubles with serial ports.  Particularly
with IRQ assignments.  I prefer the USB.

Why bother with an upgrade if it ain't an upgrade.  Maybe the electronics will be an improvement.

John
w4kv