device conection

OK so i was wondering if you could add wires that connect the computer to everything they are connected too so then you could say have a disk room full of disks for 1 computer, or you could have a redstone box it connects to the wires then when someone does something like
redstone.setOutput("RSbox1",true)"
it would have it give off an nice redstone signal.
or you could use it to run 50 monitors from 1 computer with something like
shell.run("monitor","Wmon1","hello")
Wmon1 is just a name i randomly made it means wired monitor 1.
The Monitors and Redstone boxes could be labeled so that you dont have to have a weird name.
You Could Also Have modems and RP2 wires hooked up to them as internet, Or maybe we could have redstone boxes hook up to rp2 wires.
You Could also wire up computers to computers and then be able to get code fro another computer without disks or pastebin.
with something like
fs.wireGet("ComputerID","file location","Wanted Location on computer")
then maybe it could hook up to a keyboard or mouse of sorts for doing things on a big monitor.

Second small idea
I would also like an included program that makes in game text to ascii and it adds it onto any program as
print("ect.")
print("ect.")
print("ect.")
print("ect.")
print("ect.")

sorta like lan wires and peripheral cables?

You can have one computer control/coordinate several others by rednet connections. There is also a mod that adds peripheral cables, but I find the wireless option simpler.

I don't understand what you mean by "an included program that makes in game text to ascii and it adds it onto any program". There is an ingame file editor, and you can write your own if you want. But I suspect this is not what you mean.

by the second idea i mean a built in program that turns
test
to

_ _
| | | |
| |_ ___ ___| |_
| __/ _ / __| __|
| || __/__ |_
_____||___/__|
note this ascii didnt work because of forum font but basicly i want something like this
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Big&t=test
in a built in program

if someone wanted to go through the effort they could make a list of tables containing the ASCII values of every value on the keyboard and process them, however this would be a lot of work for the person where as it could be done with much less effort by someone who would using this program if it didn't exist… if you understand that :P/>/> (basically, it isn't worth it)

ChunLing, on 18 October 2012 - 05:32 AM said:

You can have one computer control/coordinate several others by rednet connections. There is also a mod that adds peripheral cables, but I find the wireless option simpler.

I think peripheral cables would work best in the way that, for example, a controller hooks to a gaming console and the console hooks up to the TV. Attempting to perform wireless networking with all of that would be an absolute nightmare in my opinion, and it seems completely unnecessary.

I always ask myself "why can't I just access that monitor three blocks away without having to make a rednet program for it?"

Oh, and yeah, I should probably mention that I believe they should be vanilla in the mod, if that wasn't clear. I was thinking a thing sort of like redpower wires. It would be a small black cord that can be placed on walls and ceilings and would connect computers to other peripherals in the same way if they were next to each other.

Well, they have a peripheral cables mod in the peripherals section, so you're in luck. [CC 1.4] [MC 1.3.2/1.2.5] [SMP] Xfel's peripherals

I found out about that a couple months ago but I never actually get around to installing it :/

Yeah…I never did either. But like I say, I prefer wireless. Though I totally see no objection to adding them into the standard CC if enough people want them, it seems like a natural extension to me. cost seems a little wonky, compared with the regular computers and stuff…but as has been discussed the regular computers are super cheap.