X-10 (was Re: controlling power)

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Jun 27 11:36:57 2001

--- Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu> wrote:
> > Does anybody have any X-10 software for the Apple II?
>
> I do have the X-10 software for the C64. We got permission from the company
> to post it to comp.binaries.cbm -- the company owners were tickled people
> were still using C64s to control the modules, and said go ahead as long as
> it isn't sold.

I still use my CP-290 with a C-64 (that is, when I happen to have the CP-290
plugged _in_). Mostly, though, I've been using palm pads, not computer
control. Got lots of X-10 stuff, more in boxes than in the walls. Some of
it works, some has died over the past 10 years. Got one wall-switch module
that only works over the AC lines (dead pushbutton), another that doesn't
respond electronically, but the tiny override switch works. Someday, I
might pull them both and combine them. :-)

I was offered a *huge* box (> 1 cu ft) of modules at Dayton for $0.25 each.
The seller said they didn't work and I didn't feel like speculating on a
mondo pile of RS returns. I might have gotten the whole box for the cost
of two or three modules, but the time involved to test them all was worth
more than I felt they were worth.

-ethan


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