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From: barnes@mprvaxa
Newsgroups: net.micro.zx
Subject: Re: Response to query (uses for Timex)
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 12:01:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 12:01:14 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 01:11:12 EST
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Organization: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby BC
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I don't know about household uses, but my father-in-law uses his for
building up hardware control devices at work (he works for an
airline).  One such application is a smart controller for battery
chargers which controls and monitors the charging rate and periodically
loads the battery to see if it is holding a charge.

He thinks the Timex is a cheap, neat little package for such
applications.  It saves him from having to implement hard wired logic
(gasp!), or put together a circuit with a micro and program it in
machine language.  A monitor can be connected to the Timex to see
what's going on, and programming can be done directly in BASIC (with a
little machine language where speed is needed).  He had a little
trouble with the interfacing at first, but now the thing works
beautifully, and as far as I have heard, reliably.  He also expanded
the memory internally to 2K just by adding another chip inside.  What
more could a hardware hacker want?

Perhaps the above thoughts can be applied to practical electrical control
around the home?


Mike Barnes
Microtel Pacific Research
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Michael Barnes
Microtel Pacific Research		..!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!barnes