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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: LONG - All about GE Remote from Videotech list
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 13:36:20 EST
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Here is a bit of traffic on the GE Remote Control-related subject that
has not yet been distributed to the Videotech list, due to its current
state of inaction (I think the moderator changed jobs and its been left
hanging...). I had mailed copies of these, so I brought them over here
for posting:

Date: Thu, 2 Jan 86 17:31 PST
From: Thomka.es@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Re: GE Universal Remote Control -- description
To: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI <wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA>
cc: videotech@SRI-CSL.ARPA
Message-ID: <860102-173128-3988@Xerox>

Right on your second guess.  The IR units send out combinations of dit's
and dah's.  The manufacturer specifies the length of their own dit's and
dah's, though.  I believe the IR spectrum may be too narrow to cheaply
make IR frequency selective units.  Also, I haven't seen IR diode light
output frequency specifications tight enough to allow for it any way.

The IR repeater's (I have one called the Xtra-Link by Videolink) only
have to have an IR receiver to sense the IR signal, then duplicate it -
all dit's and dah's, of whatever length, are thus carried.

	Chuck

Date: Sat 4 Jan 86 11:08:25-PST
From: Doug <Faunt%HP-THOR@HPLABS.ARPA>
Subject: Remote controls
To: DE@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA
Cc: Faunt%HP-THOR@hplabs.ARPA, wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA, videotech@SRI-CSL.ARPA

 I got to examine the new product from Wozniak's company.
It's named TYRON (with a bar over the "o" to indicate a long "o").
It'll sell for $20. and will be available soon.  
Apparently Woz bought the first run, 500 units, to give away.
It's a IR remote control power booster that's kind of cute.
The packaging is neat, also.

It's about 1 3/4" wide, and is basically a cylinder of about 1 1/4"
diameter with a slice taken out of it so from the end it looks like a
PACMAN character with a LONG lower "lip" for attaching it to the
remote control.  The remote goes into the "mouth", with the lower
"lip" attached to the bottom of the remote by double-sided tape, with
the output lens of the remote up against a rubber gasket surrounding
the input lens of the amplifier.  The entire thing is made of
a dark red, IR transparent plastic.  The larger part of the
cylinder is occupied by the 9V battery that powers it.  The battery is
also the major part of the weight.

                . .----------------------
             .    :         remote      |
            .     ...........------------
             .    .. . * *
                .
		^		
		|
	      TYRON (Connect the dots to make a 3/4 circle)
		side view (the scale is off, for the remotes we have)

The rumor is that the combined remote will have a computer
interface, and a 6502, and won't be available for 6 months or so.