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>Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 17:52:10 -0800
>Sender: net-happenings@is.internic.net
>From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
>Subject: the first Christmas tree on the Internet (fwd)
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>Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 15:12:16 -0800
>From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com>
>Subject: the first Christmas tree on the Internet
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>                CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS UP VIA THE INTERNET
>
>        Dec. 7, 1993 - Employees of Cygnus Support in Mountain View,
>California, discovered when they came to work today that they can
>light the company Christmas tree without leaving their computer
>consoles. Engineers at this four-year-old software startup last night
>reprogrammed the company's internal computer network to enable users
>of the network to issue commands to the decorations on the tree.
>
>        A Cygnus engineer sits in front of his Unix XWindows
>workstation and brings up a windowed, mouse-drive application called
>"xmastree". Clicking the mouse over the correct gadget turns on
>lights on the seven-and-one-half foot tall evergreen in the
>lobby of Cygnus Headquarters.  Clicking the mouse over another gadget
>turns other decorations, including bubble lights and musical bells, on
>or off.
>
>        Currently, only users on Cygnus's internal network can
>actually control the Christmas tree, but anyone at any Internet site
>anywhere can discover the current status of the Cygnus christmas tree
>by issuing the command, "finger xmastree@cygnus.com". The command will
>report whether the lights, bubbles, and bells are on or off.
>
>        Cygnus engineers, when not playing with their Christmas toys,
>write and maintain software tools such as compilers, tools which enable
>programmers to create new computer programs. Since many of Cygnus' customers
>are engaged in embedded systems programming, Cygnus uses X-10 controllers
>to enable and disable target single board computers during testing.
>"Cygnoids" Jason Molenda and Brian Smith extended the principle to the
>Christmas tree this year and added the spiffy graphical user interface
>called "xmastree" for the amusement of their fellow employees.
>
>        The cost of the decorations plus control hardware used on the
>tree itself (exclusive of the computers on the Cygnus network) was
>about $100.
>
>        For further information, contact Cindy Jepsen, Cygnus Support,
>1937 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA (415) 903-1400 (email cindy@cygnus.com).
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>                                -30-
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>Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan@cygnus.com
>Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA                              +1 415 903 1400
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