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Subject: Re: Home control with the MAC
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From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 02:28:13 GMT
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I wanted to do this, too, and so last year or so, I did some looking
and found a hypercard-driven thing that let you turn stuff on & off
in your house, as well as some other things.

But considering that my specific task was that I wanted my radio to
record programmes that I miss because I'm at work or class, the price
(circa $200?) was not really worth it... I eventually settled on a
Radio Shack gizmo that turned it on at the appropriate time and turned
it off again... which costed circa $20... 10% of the price.

Of course, this couldn't change the station on the radio, but then, I
doubt if the mac thing could, either.

I wonder why they don't make radios with the functionality of VCRs? You
can program a VCR to record from an abitrary number of channels across
an arbitrary time period... maybe I just don't have an upscale enough
radio setup?

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