Posibility to get status informations with the help of a LED

[michael at michaelshiloh.com]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ian Stirling wrote:

> michael at michaelshiloh.com wrote:
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>>  On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
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>> >  Harald Welte wrote:
>> > > > >  I searched the different hardware specs and archives of the 
>> > > > >  mailing list but
>> > > > >  didn't find any information if LEDs will be one part of the 
>> > > > >  hardware.
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>> > > >  AFAIK the Neo1973 v1 will have no LEDs (beside the screen backlight 
>> > > >  and
>> > > >  inside the touchscreen)
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>> > >  This is true, no LED.
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>> >  Which is utterly sad, given I'm such a big fan of Blinkenlights...
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>>  You want a phone that looks like the front panel of an Imsai 8080, right?
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> Old Skool  baby!
> http://www.dbit.com/~greeng3/pdp1/PDP1.10.jpg

Hehe. That's the background image I want for my Neo.

Speaking of which, once we're done with the functionality of all our great
ideas, no reason not to have different "skins", right? I mean the dialer
application could use the traditional pushbuttons, or a retro round dial, or
even a plug-and-jack switchboard interface (touch the headset, touch the
appropriate jack, a wire appears and makes the connection...)

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> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_thread/thread/52e1c0873fc9c79b/84aa18f138b3c438?lnk=st&q=pdp-1+business+card&rnum=5&hl=en#84aa18f138b3c438 
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Yikes! An Imsai with USB ports??!?!?!?!?!
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