7 Aug
2003
7 Aug
'03
8:24 a.m.
X10 stuff used to be really expensive in the US as well, until their patent
expired and everyone and their brother started making compatable modules. I
assume it's the same situation in the UK. They probably were awarded another
patent for the same thing, but at 50Hz/240V :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Your old PC jr.
Hi,
I ran across a reference to your webpage;
searching for a power supply for my 386-25 .
If you haven't given away your computer,
I'd like to suggest that you hook it up, as an X-10 box,
for home automation .
I'm one of the PC-jr owners on this list. Alas I am in the UK, where X10
stuff is not common (it does exist over here, modified for 240V, 50Hz
mains, but it's _very_ expensive).
However, these older boxes are, indeed, useful for control applications.
I must get round to designing my own version of X10 (Steve Ciarcia has at
least one idea in his Circuit Cellar articles...)
There are clock boards, eprom cards, your
old box,
Err, the PC-jr doesn't have normal ISA slots, you know. Add-on modules
for it are not common. They're not hard to design, though (I have the
full TechRef, and the PC-jr bus is essentially the 8088 bus).
is still valuable, TO YOU .
Isn't that a rather obvious statement on this list :-)
-tony