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Article #18497Re: House Automation (other approaches)
From: M. Kokodyniak
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 05:34
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 05:34
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These days it just doesn't pay to run 25-wire cable to every room in the house. Just run two wires and use electronics to do the rest. Or better yet, use wires already in place -- power, telephone, cable-TV cables. (Of course this is the idea behind the X-10 system.) Remember: Silicon is cheaper than copper!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utcsri!uthub!koko From: koko@uthub.toronto.edu (M. Kokodyniak) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: House Automation (other approaches) Message-ID: <692@uthub.toronto.edu> Date: 6 Feb 88 05:34:40 GMT Article-I.D.: uthub.692 Posted: Sat Feb 6 00:34:40 1988 References: <745@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <20522@felix.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 6 Summary: copper, silicon