On Sunday September 08 1996, Jim Dunmyer of (1:234/2) wrote to Roy J. 
Tellason:
 JD> older CNC milling machine. They'd be a good machine for many HomePower
 JD> folks, as they're extrememly frugal with the power requirements.
 JD> One fella in CA had a business years ago where he built interfaces for a
 JD> Mod 100. The whole thing was powered by a small solar panel, sat out in 

 JD> field or orchard, taking some sort of measurements and storing them in 
the
 JD> computer.
The old Timex/Sinclair computers are pretty good on power too. For limited 
stuff like recording numbers or controlling a single thing like a throttle or 
an axis, they'd be pretty good too.
RYL,
    Chris
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