[Coco] OT: Amiga controls heat and AC...

[George Ramsower]

  I've been thinking on this since the original post. That Commodor is 
old. Very few programmers are familiar with it and placing a new 
computer in it's place is not going to be easily accomplished.
  It would be simpler but more costly to replace the whole danged system 
of using an existing radio system using "most likely" a packet radio 
protocol on the old radio system with a totally new system that would 
not interfere with the existing method of communicating with two-way 
radios. Naturally, this will require all new equipment and software. It 
won't be a five minute job!!
  There will be a lot of research required to learn the connections to 
the existing or new heating/cooling controls, and how to get the data 
that was sent to the old computer.
  This won't be cheap and you are correct. The majority of the allocated 
money is for other things as well.
  I have done a "hats off" to the young fellow that originated that 
system and I pity whoever has to replace it.
George R


On 6/17/2015 10:46 PM, Steve Batson wrote:
> The 1 to 2 million is for a new bond, not just the computer replacement. Sounds like they would use the bond to do upgrades to their systems and I think we all know that they will spend it on a lot more than just an a computer to replace an Amiga or two.
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> * Send out for bids
> * Hire a contractor (probably someone's brother-in-law)
> * Replace a ton of stuff that probably doesn't need replaced
> * Waste a bunch of money on unrelated stuff.
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> It's government....we all know what that means when it comes to making good financial decisions.
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> On Jun 17, 2015, at 11:42 AM, lciotti at lrlc.us lciotti at lrlc.us <lciotti at lrlc.us> wrote:
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>>>     On June 17, 2015 at 6:25 AM Torsten Dittel <OS-9 at TRS-80.CC> wrote:
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>>>     OT, but funny:
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>>>     http://woodtv.com/2015/06/11/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac/
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>> The disturbing part to me is that they quote a replacement for this computer to
>> be in the $1M-$2M range...
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