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Re: A father of home automation "beams up"

Subject: Re: A father of home automation "beams up"
From: "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:24:25 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
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"B Fuhrmann" <b-fuhrmann-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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> Corded remotes showed up again in the 70s on VCRs.  My first one (NEC
Beta)
> had the corded remote connected via a 2 contact mini phone plug.  It would
> pull out safely if someone tripped over it.  If you tripped over it at the
> remote end, the very light weight button set would get flung.

I wonder if it was lawyers or IR that caused the extinction of corded
remotes?

--
Bobby G.

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