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Re: Lamenting the Long Edit
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Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:06:04 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> My favourite was the Gardena Water Computer. There was also another called
> Water Timer, the non electronic version. I wanted that one so badly!
> Come to think of it, maybe I should go and get a Water Computer. Just to
> say I got one :)
Well, word is the Water Computer isn't what it's cracked up to be:
2 out of 5 stars an astonishingly convoluted device, May 19, 2002
Reviewer: Neil Giacobbi from Brooklyn, NY United States
The Gardena Water Computer is an astonishingly convoluted device that performs
an otherwise simple task. The programming methods seem to best serve the
engineering requirements of Gardena and not typical home gardeners. The English
section of the instructions were likely not written by a native English speaker
- making deployment of the timer ever more complicated. After several attempts
that consumer several precious weekend hours I was finally able to link the
computer with a Gardena Rain Sensor and a Gardena Water Distributor. Overall, it
simply was not worth my time, and because of Amazon's requirement that a product
must be unused to be returned, I have to live with it.
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There was little "activity card" in the Dacta Control Lab package (the large
$700 one) which had a "make your own computer controlled greenhouse" activity.
Instead of controlling water though, you controlled opening and closing a window
in the greenhouse (large enough to hold a pea plant in a foam coffee cup). It
used the temperature sensor (aka, Bruce Sheridan's favourite Lego piece).
Can't wait to get the ControlLabs...
Calum
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| (...) I'm a little confused how a "Water Computer" is going to help you wash your car so you can see the paint chips better so you can wine about them on line and make Chris spell "Julienne Fries" incorrectly, so Mario has to correct him, while (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Buddy. I've been looking at that 1994 dacta catalogue for almost 10 years now, dreaming about that set. I even built a mock up of the greenhouse with the giant tessalated translucent blue panels from the 6990 Monorail, a thermistor, relay, and (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) My favourite was the Gardena Water Computer. There was also another called the Water Timer, the non electronic version. I wanted that one so badly! Come to think of it, maybe I should go and get a Water Computer. Just to say I got one :) (...) (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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