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Re: multi-device output controller (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:56:30 GMT
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Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.AVOIDSPAMcom>
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Hi Bill,
----- Forwarded message from Bill Flanagan -----
From: "Bill Flanagan" <bflanagan@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: multi-device output controller (fwd)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:26:31 -0500
I like the ide that you have but like you, I am not a hardware engineer!
Buy and program is my model.
----- End of forwarded message from Bill Flanagan -----
While I do software work now for Tivoli (IBM) I started out doing non-Von
Neumann cpu design (RTL monobuss cpu in TTL random logic clocked at 40MHz) for
the DoD in the very early 80's for a router for the early ARPANet (before such
things as routers were invented by Sun) while going to school at UT Austin.
I've been building computers since 1976 when I built my first 6800 256 bit
machine while in high school. I've been playing with electronics (analog and
digital) since 1969 when my parents said I had to give up hobby chemistry
after blowing a big hole in the side of their garage at the tender age of 9.
I still play with explosives and such via SRL and similar performance art
shows. I've been playing with the idea of FAE drums that could be played via
computer. Would be perfect for Burning Man.
Currently my interests involve robotics (both Lego and Robot Wars style),
experimental and hybrid rockets, wargaming, and cliology. My current Lego
project (supported by some members of the Austin Perl Mongers) is to have
a bot hooked to the Internet that is programmable through a web interface.
Wayne Walker (wwalker@ssz.com) and I had hoped to have it ready by the Perl
conference next month, he wants to give a talk on it. Don't know if we'll
make it because of other priorities. I've got the basic bot build, have a
spare machine to put on my ISDN feed (I have a dedicated C-class domain at
home - ssz.com) but am still waiting on the Austin Linux Group to deliver my
copy of SuSE 6.0. I've also got to get a Hauppage (sp) WinTV card as it has
good Linux support (or so I've been advised). I expect to have the machine
setup by the middle of next month. If all goes well it might be online late
next month or early May.
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once you start doing it, nobody can trust you any more.
Alexis A. Gilliland
The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate
Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com
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