Using Siri to talk to a Mac 512K
07/11/2011 |
Remember that scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where Scotty converses with a vintage Mac by picking up the mouse and intoning "Computer..." to it? Well, YouTube regular "napabar" has gone one better by getting Siri on an iPhone 4S to create a text file on a mint-condition Mac 512K. Talk to the iPhone 4S, and moments later a text file appears on the Mac 512K.
As with many attempts to use older technology -- in this case, a 27-year-old Mac -- a bridge between the old and the new is needed....
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