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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!dscomsa!zeus02.desy.de!hallam
- From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
- Subject: Re: Neat uses for old hardware
- Message-ID: <Bz8Iyz.8w1@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Sender: usenet@dscomsa.desy.de (usenet)
- Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
- Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
- References: <1992Dec7.024705.7466@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Dec6.224454@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:52:10 GMT
- Approved: Ministry of silly walks
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Dec6.224454@IASTATE.EDU>, spam@IASTATE.EDU (mike begley)
- writes:
-
- |>In article <1992Dec7.024705.7466@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
- |>bldaniel@unccsun.uncc.edu writes:
- |>>
- |>>
- |>> (a small hack, but fun)
- |>>
- |>> Taking an old Atari 1040ST, wiring motion detectors to
- |>> it's joystick ports, and writing the code to make
- |>> it into a home alarm system. With date/time logging to floppy.
- |>> And, coming soon, modem status updates!
- |>> (ok, ok. But it was fun. And it works!)
- |>>
- |>cheater! I'm doing the same thing......but I'm not using a 16 bit atari,
- |>I'm using an 8-bit atari 800xl.
- |>
- |>nyah nyah nyah! (sitting here, smug in the knowledge that I'm using *older*
- |>hardware for a hack...)
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- I am using a ZX-80 with a home made RAM expansion performed by soldering extra
- static RAM pigyback onto the circuit board. The motion detectors plug into the
- keyboard.
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- --
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- Phill Hallam-Baker
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