At 09:54 AM 11/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Most all of the consumer IR controls on the market use the same carrier
>frequency and the same modulation technique, and only differ in using
>different codes for different functions. Evidently some of your boxes
>use the same codes for different functions!
I am amazed that there isn't a standard for remotes -- 01 for on/off, 02 for
VolUp, 03 for VolDn, etc. But of course, nobody listens to me.
>I would guess that the IR keyboards in the PC Jr's pretty much guaranteed
>that they would never be adopted by schools. When all you have to do
>is point your keyboard at the teacher's PC and type "DEL *.*", any
>schools that did buy them must've unloaded them as soon as they could...
As I recall, there was much criticism of the IR keyboard since if you were
far enough away to make it useful, you were too far away to read the screen.
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Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 17:07:11 GMT