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Article #359Re: Attention programmers--VCR remote control for Mac?
From: Glenn R. Howes
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <45r7ac$5ft@clark.net> David M. Palmer, dmpalmer@clark.net
writes:
>Some One For All remote controls (models 5, 6, 8 and 12) like you can
>buy at K-Mart for $30, are computer interfaceable. The Developer's
>Manual is $20 at
>
>http://www.techmall.com/smarthome/4057.html
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>If somebody were to make a Mac Interface (preferably ADB or using
>the GPI pin, since my serial ports are both in use) I would buy
>it, and you can probably interest the techmall/smarthome people
>into carrying it as a product.
>
>Please make it AppleScriptable so that I can do things like:
>
>Tell Remote
This sounds like a really interesting idea, sort of like the
CedarTech sound input device from a few years ago. I'd be
willing to do the software end of things, but I might need
some help with the ADB interface. I'll order the documentation
manual to see how easy things look. I've already got the code
for an AppleScriptable CD Player which could be adapted as a
front end to this sort of thing.
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grhowes@students.wisc.edu // // \\ \\ Macintosh Programmer?
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