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From: clements@BBNCCQ.ARPA (Bob Clements)
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Subject: Re: BSR for S-100, and non-S-100
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 12:43:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 12:43:23 1985
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I think you're right that someone made an S-100 board to operate BSR house
controllers.  I don't remember the details, as I was turned off by the
idea of running 110 volts onto a PC board.

There was also an article by Ciarcia in Byte that described a circuit to
throw ultrasonic pulses at the BSR controller box.

But I think the method of choice now (at least I chose it) is the
Heath GD-1530. It takes an EIA serial line (transmit side only) and
reads commands like "A1<return> AON<return>" to turn on module 1 of house A.

This was not initially the method of choice because it was ridiculously
expensive at $250. But it was reduced to $99 a while ago, which makes it
much more reasonable.  I guess 8748s got cheaper.

/Rcc