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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Home-grown controllers/interfaces
Message-ID: <3930@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 88 15:56:22 GMT
References: <12546@cup.portal.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> 
> Remember the old AtariLab kits?  I never saw one, or got to play with them, 
> and wondered if 1) they were still available? 2) they were worth bothering
> with? 3) were improved to real-world interfacing, such as the recent X-10 
> remote control power modules that have long been available on the C64 and
> Radio Shack Coco computers....?
> 
The AtariLab kit is still listed on the software list I got from Atari at
the Summer CES.  It is listed as AED80013 and the Light Module is AED80014.
I don't think that any modifications have been made to it.

> I am looking for something that will allow remote control, security system
> applications, equipment monitoring, etc... Thanks for any mail or postings!
> 
The latest ANTIC 8bit catalog contains the PowerManager from Terrific Corp.
for $24.95.  This is the hardware and software necessary to use the X-10
controller in your home.  It was reviewed in ANTIC an issue or two ago.
There was even a simple PD version in that issue of ANTIC, but the 
commercial version is supposed to be much more powerful.  On further
reading, I see that it says it requires the CP290 Powerhouse Interface
from X-10.  I don't know what that costs or where you would get it, but
I imagine the same place you can get the X-10.


					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Bell Laboratories
					...att!ihlpe!kimes