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- From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite,comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: re: remote with macros
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 05:43:01 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- Message-ID: <1h8u95INN8cc@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <9212220341.AA06809@speedy.cs.pitt.edu> <1h6dtfINNjli@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1h6dtfINNjli@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- >In article <9212220341.AA06809@speedy.cs.pitt.edu> Elmer Beachley <etb@CS.PITT.EDU> writes:
- >>How can I turn my HP95LX into a learning remote? Any public domain
- >>software to do this?
- >
- >There is myRemote (commercial), ir.asm (just bare source code), RemCom
- >(shareware), and ir95 (shareware). Remcom and the demo for myRemote
- >are available from Compuserve. Hopefully they and others will be
- >avilable for anonymous ftp.
-
- And there's also IR95 from Gilles Kohl. IR95 is postcard-ware. I've just
- mailed off my postcard last week so I don't know anymore yet...
-
- >By the way, although the HP-95LX is quite nice, the HP-48S has the same
- >kind of IR port and can be had for as little as $150. The 48 also is
- >shaped more like a remote control with the IR port on the rear face,
- >just like any other remote control. The 95 unfolds to expose its
- >qwerty keyboard and has the IR port on the right side.
- >
- >The 48 is basicly a very powerful calculator while the 95 is a very
- >small MS-DOS computer. See the Usenet newsgroups comp.sys.hp48 and
- >comp.sys.palmtops respectively.
-
- And the biggest advantage of using the 48 instead of the 95 for a remote
- is that the 48 has a clock and can wake up at a programmed time to do
- things for you. For instance, I've just completed an alarm program for the
- 48 that turns my stereo on for me in the morning. I've even got it so that
- it selects different channels for me on the weekends. Can't do that with
- the 95; at least, not straight out of the box.
-
- >--
- ><-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
-
- George
-
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