Re: Insteon open source WAS: Something else

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:27:24 GMT, Joerg
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>> FWIW, they are almost _giving_ away ISA DAQ hardware on eBay, with PCI
>> prices not much higher. 16-input, 16-bit resolution ISA ADC/DAC/DIO  and
>> 96-input/output DIO PCI boards for $50, and so on.
>>
>
>Thanks for the hint. That sure is a better deal than a Labjack although
>those are quite universal and useful. Different league though.
>
>
>> One feller had about fifteen like-new National Instruments 64-input ADC (+
>> DIO + DAC) that went without any takers at $40. He was begging for offers.
>> Plenty of single-board ISA and PCI computers (SBC's) usually too.
>>
>> I'll be having a porch sale soon at www.ECOntrol.org to clean out the junk
>> box/room.
>>
>
>Let us know when that happens.
>
>Nice house. I really like that winter picture. My grandmother in Germany
>wouldn't have considered 1821 to be that long ago. Her house (still
>there) is a lot older. The church where we got married was dedicated in
>1019 but rebuilt several times because of lots of wars, fires and
>lightning hits. But even that ain't old. There are lots of building from
>the Romans still intact or even in use. The ones I saw were mostly about
>1800 years old. These guys sure knew how to do a top quality job.

Here's a url of a picture taken (literally) from the upstairs of the house I
grew up in and still own and visit on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca,
Spain:

http://www.valldemossa.com/vallde.htm

That's the new (18th century?) church in the picture. The terraces built on
the mountainside were built by the Moors ca 1000. Our house is contiguous
with the palace of the Kings of Mallorca begun in 1390-something and finished
about 1405 IIRC. Famous too for a monastery also built in the 13-14th C's,
also contiguous with our house.

My first HA project involved chiseling in the meter-thick stone walls of my
bedroom to embed wires ... Folks what complain about the 'difficulty' of
pulling CAT5 through hollow stud walls in US and Canada have no idea how easy
they have it ;-)

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org