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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Kurt Weiske
from: Roger Nelson
date: 2011-09-09 07:19:52
subject: Wi-Tricity, and Li-Fi

On Wed Sep-07-2011 09:50, Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) wrote to Roger Nelson:

-=> Roger Nelson wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 RN> Or something was lacking in those versions.  I wonder if it worked in
 RN> Windows ME?

 KW> There was something about the way NT and 2000 handled monitor
 KW> hardware differently from DOS. Timex sold a little serial port
 KW> doo-dad that worked with the watches for users with NT/2000 or LCD
 KW> monitors.

 KW> Windows ME still had DOS underneath and probably would have worked.

I think after Win98, with the exception of ME, something was no longer
included; some EXE file or perhaps some DLL.  I'm only guessing, of course.


Regards,

Roger 
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