-=> Peter May said to Roy J. Tellason
 -=> about "STILL AROUND" on 11-01-04  07:18.....

 PM> I saw the web server on a vic 20 web page, amazing. I sold a pile
 PM> of vic 20s about a yard high (1 metre?) to guy whop was using the
 PM> boards in them to manufacture automatic watering systems.
 
 RJT> Do-able,  but if you salvage a lot of parts from those machines
 RJT> you can do it with significantly less.  Unless he's doing it in
 RJT> BASIC?  :-)  Seriously,  I don't see why you'd need a video
 RJT> interface for that application. 

 PM> Thats what he said he was doing, i thought at the time he seemed a bit
 PM> eccentric,

I heard of several projects that used Vic20's back when they were
being sold off very cheap.

Yes, leaving all the hardware in them was certainly an overkill,
but it worked out a LOT cheaper and a LOT less work than trying
to physically rework them.

And it also allowed them to be reprogrammed easily for another
job, if the need for the first application disappeared.

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