Peter May wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 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.

Do-able,  but if you salvage a lot of parts from those machines you can do
it with significantly less.  Unless he's doing it in BASIC?  :-) 
Seriously,  I don't see why you'd need a video interface for that
application.

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