GT (Re: [sdiy] PIC's, UARTS, & MIDI)

[Kevin Lightner]

>At 01:43 PM 3/22/2005 -0500, Aaron Lanterman wrote:
>
>>John Peatman's a member of my department
>
>Heh.  I was going to ask you if Dr. Peatman was still teaching.  I 
>took his digital design class some 20 years ago, and he was one of 
>the best profs I ever had.  My senior project was an Apple II board 
>that had 4 telephone line interfaces w/ DTMF generation and 
>detection as well as CVSD speech on each channel.  That was one 
>densely populated board, with a maze of point to point wiring on the 
>back.  He gave me an A for it. :) 
>
>What he didn't know is, I built it for some phone phreaks who used 
>it to run one of the first automated phone sex operations in the 
>country.  They wrote the software, and we were going to sell the 
>hardware & software as a commercial package.  Unfortunately for me, 
>they were making so much money off of the phone sex service that 
>they never finished the software (a nightmare of 6502 assembly 
>language).  By the time I figured this out, people were doing the 
>same thing on the IBM PC. :( 
>
>Ah, to be young and foolish.


I guess I'm still young and foolish.
I have an Apple II that controls my outside sprinklers. :)


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