4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
3:16 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 04:07 pm, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Roy J. Tellason once
stated:
Heck, I did better than that -- I took a standard 4 inch electrical box, got
a plate for "switch and duplex outlet" and stuck a dimmer in there.
Originally this was to save the hassle of a xmas tree which had a lot of very
old fashioned lights on it from drying out quite as rapidly, but shortly
after that the thing ended up in my bedroom and has been on my night table
ever since. And I did that back in 1973 or so!
I guess newer ain't always necessarily better, eh?
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:53 am, Don Y wrote:
I have a computerized light switch in the bedroom. It's a dimmer switch
and you can pre-select how bright the lights get when you hit it. If you
double hit it (double click?) it'll go to full brightness, but still keep
the original setting. I have a friend who is just finishing the design
of a LIGHT SWITCH --
written in ASM.
*boggle*
Why? -spc (Okay, not on topic, but still ... computerized
light switches ... )
Yeah, well...
Maybe if I can change the software if I don't like it. :-)
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