clements@BBNCCQ.ARPA (Bob Clements) (09/03/85)
I think you're right that someone made an S-100 board to operate BSR house controllers. I don't remember the details, as I was turned off by the idea of running 110 volts onto a PC board. There was also an article by Ciarcia in Byte that described a circuit to throw ultrasonic pulses at the BSR controller box. But I think the method of choice now (at least I chose it) is the Heath GD-1530. It takes an EIA serial line (transmit side only) and reads commands like "A1<return> AON<return>" to turn on module 1 of house A. This was not initially the method of choice because it was ridiculously expensive at $250. But it was reduced to $99 a while ago, which makes it much more reasonable. I guess 8748s got cheaper. /Rcc