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A comment on Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines.

Re:Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines by kstenerud on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:52PM (#23430621)
"Today, cheap digitized sewing is the norm, but at the turn of the century, Jaguar sparked a sort of revolution by giving consumers affordable and easy to use equipment."

Actually, digitized sewing was already a thing in the USA during the 90s thanks to Pfaff's PC Designer. You connected via your computer's parallel port and uploaded patterns to your sewing machine via their Windows 3.1 software. This is also why Singer's Jaguar copy did so poorly: The American market was already saturated with PCD based patterns.

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Re:Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines by reaperducer on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:33PM (#23434789)
Even earlier than that. In the 1980's Brother had a sewing machine with a floppy disk drive.

The sewing machine drive turns out to be compatible with the old TRS-80 Model 100 laptop, so retro computer collectors fall over themselves to get one.

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Re:Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines by pvitz on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:44AM (#23437109)
Similarly, Brother was using also floppy drives for their knitting machines.
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