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RE: BBC MIcro (Was: Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player)
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- Subject: RE: BBC MIcro (Was: Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3
Player)
- From: Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:31:10 +0100
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They can be used for any "Control" type tasks. There are 4
analogue inputs
which can be used for simple temperature sensors, the User port and Printer
Port can be used for digital inputs and outputs. The video system, which by
no stretch of the imagination could be called "Hi Res", does have
Mode
7....the teletext mode, and can be output to any TV.
Quite useful status and feedback screens can be generated using only 1K of
memory and the cassette motor relay can be used to control the switching of
a SCART socket on a TV. *MOTOR ON to display, *MOTOR OFF to revert to TV.
It has an RS423 port for direct serial connection to a COM port on a PC.
It should be possible to get it to convert serial info from Homevision into
a nice multicoloured bar graph using teletext graphics thaat can be piped
round the house on a spare TV channel leaving the HomeVision free to
overlay text.
Similar things should also be possible with other home micros from the 80s
but I only ever had the Beeb.
If I had more time I would get round to playing with it a bit more!
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: jonathan.bhargava [SMTP:jonathan.bhargava@xxxxxxx]
I've still got the Master & an A3000 lurking around somewhere - what HA
tasks could they be used for?
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