Anyone want an irman (Infrared to serial dongles)

[Guy Dunphy]

At 11:05 PM 8/01/2019 +0000, you wrote:
>While tidying up I've found a few Irman infrared to serial dongles
>
>https://web.archive.org/web/20060314052558/http://www.evation.com/irman/index.html
>
>they connect via a 9 pin serial plug and then convert any consumer
>remote IR signals they receive into serial.
>
>No additional power required, good wide angle reception, open source
>driver still available
>
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/libirman/
>
>Could make an interesting project for anyone who wants to control
>their VAX / S-100 / homebrew retro board with a serial port via a
>remote :)
>
>The company making them went away about a decade ago, so I'm counting
>that as in retro territory.
>
>I have four for the price of shipping if anyone is interested, based
>in London/UK.
>
>(Around 2000 we had an office music system based around a DNARD/Shark
>running mserv & irman where everyone had a random remote at their desk
>and could use it to rate/skip/queue something they liked, and the
>system generally trid to pick from music which most of the people
>currently connected liked... ahh, fun days :)
>
>David


I'll definitely take one. Or preferably two, if that doesn't clash with anyone
else wanting one.

I'll send my address via private email.
Can you accept Paypal for the postage?

Guy