weekend finds - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Dec 1997

At 09:54 AM 11/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
...
 Most all of the consumer IR controls on the market use
the same carrier
frequency and the same modulation technique, and only differ in using
different codes for different functions.  Evidently some of your boxes
use the same codes for different functions!  
I am amazed that there isn't a standard for remotes -- 01 for on/off, 02 for
VolUp, 03 for VolDn, etc.  But of course, nobody listens to me.

...
 I would guess that the IR keyboards in the PC Jr's
pretty much guaranteed
that they would never be adopted by schools.  When all you have to do
is point your keyboard at the teacher's PC and type "DEL *.*", any
schools that did buy them must've unloaded them as soon as they could...  
As I recall, there was much criticism of the IR keyboard since if you were
far enough away to make it useful, you were too far away to read the screen.  

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