IrDA

I still use an IrDA device on a regular (3-4x yearly) basis - ScubaPro Galileo Luna dive computers. What’s more - somehow this works on an M-series Mac using no additional paid software. UTM with an older Linux distribution and some tools I hacked together a decade ago to spit out UDDF and it’s just a matter of very precisely aiming the IrDA dongle and hoping I remembered all the other small things.

Part of me is horrified that I need to do this to get my dive profiles. Part of me also says that my dive computer has worked and helped to keep me alive for weeks underwater so far, not much reason to change it.

The article is a great read. Though it talks about OBEX, and how Bluetooth wiped out IrDA, but not that Bluetooth took OBEX straight out of the IrDA stack.

Not IRDA, but there was also IRTalk built into some of the Power Book series, allowing native AppleTalk to a diffuse IR access point. I really wanted to try that out but never had the opportunity.

Could someone revive the GigaIR protocol?