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Re: A father of home automation "beams up"

Subject: Re: A father of home automation "beams up"
From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:05:43 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
References: <48Kdnek9V9LieUvYnZ2dnUVZ_tOmnZ2d@xxxxxxx>

> Adler and Polley's refinement was ingeniously simple. When a viewer
pressed
> the buttons on the Space Command, tiny hammers struck lightweight aluminum
> rods to produce high-frequency sounds . . .

A neighbor had one of those.  Channel up/down was all it did.  Big honkin'
console TV the size of a credenza.  Don't recall if it had the "hi fi"
turntable in it or not.

Our house just has the carbon-based remotes.  Me and my brother...

References:
- A father of home automation "beams up"
  - From: Robert Green

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