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Jay Steele writes
> As I was leafing through the May issue of Byte magazine  
recently,
> I saw an add for a board which allowed television signals to  
be
> displayed on a window. I mentioned to a nearby friend that I 
> thought it was pretty interesting, and he abruptly responded
> "Why... I serves no practical purpose."
> 
> Well, my [limited] knowledge of multimedia tells me otherwise. 
> What are some of these apparantly non-existant "practical  
purposes?"

Well, I can think of two just off the top of my head.

1. Using serial control of a laserdisk, you can have a  
customized, interactive educational game similar to the arcade  
ones.

2. With enough processing power (and a 486 has it) you could  
inspect and capture significant news stories from CNN.  The  
military would have loved that capability to help generate  
briefings during the Gulf War.