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Re: LEGO is listening! (was...are you listening?)
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:11:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Frank Buiting writes:
> > In lugnet.lego.direct, Zhengrong Zang writes:
> > > I am not sure about DCC, can it control automatically?
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> > AFAIK, it is designed to control trains. In fact, it does not just control
> > the motor, but can also control lights, whistles and trackside objects.
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> > -Frank
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> > Followups to lugnet.trains
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> DCC has from the very start (back when Marklin made it only) had a RS-232
> connection capability to your computer.
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> There are a couple of other options available if you want a computer controlled
> layout, such as (Bruce Chubb's???) computer controlled system. This is a
> conventional (DC) system driven by a low end computer (like a 8086 or so...).
> track must be sectionalized, and wiring gets complicated.
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> One could also use Zero-1 with a computer (IIRC), however, it is no longer
> available as such, and the company that is making it might as well be making to
> NMRA DCC now.
> (Zero-1 was Hornby Hobbies version of DCC, and had some limitations that DCC
> does not, such as not working right...but it was the first commerical _digital_
> command control system.)
And apparently neeeded a 'clean_room' level of dust removal to work
effectivly...
> I'm thinking of going to DCC (have been since 96 :) but I have always had
> something else that was more important to get at any given time...
I wonder what the Tech Model Railway Club do in regard to thier DCC system?
(The TMRC being the Model railwy group at MIT- According to one source they
had semi automatic cotrol for signaling and power WAY back in the 1960's!
It was also were the first generation 'true' hackers got started...
The article I read also went on to say that one system for a layout to
control a section of track you dialed it up like you would a telephone. In
my view it seems the TMRC's layouts may have been more advanced then the
Real Railroads they were trying to model!!
MIT asssisted Lego in the Devlopment of the RCX, now let them help with DCC!)
Alex
> James Powell
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| (...) DCC has from the very start (back when Marklin made it only) had a RS-232 connection capability to your computer. There are a couple of other options available if you want a computer controlled layout, such as (Bruce Chubb's???) computer (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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