[vcf-midatlantic] Museum wireless doorbell thingamajig

[Todd George]

The Cray needs a sign "Never press this big red button... Unless you need a
docent".

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:10 PM Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> The big red button on the Cray is an off-the shelf Square D 9001KR25R
> "operator" (pushbutton for everyone else in the world)
>
> If someone is up to the challenge, I have the green version 9001KR25G
> that I can donate to VCF.
>
> Martin
>
> On 12/29/2016 9:56 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > In this day of IoT, this could be a FUN project
> > Martin Flynn offered
> >> Waveware SPS-5 transmitter with 4 pagers.
> > That should be perfect! Pagers are retro.
> > 4 of them mean some will always be charged and ready.
> >
> > But the master station needs serial input from something.
> > Let's see
> >
> > - a pushbutton to the Raspberry Pi
> > running the overhead video display,
> > which ought to have motion and distance sensors to react to folks
> automatically.
> > The "call button" could respond with a video - the cavalry is coming!
> > Or one of a random assortment of science fiction talking computers
> > such as the talking head from The Starlost or Red Dwarf.
> >
> > - the big red button on the Cray
> >
> > - setting the PiDP-8 console switches all "on"
> >
> > - the Apple ][ serial port card.
> > Evans' Lego robot could entertain them while waiting.
> > For movie trivia, have it say "My name is Rags! Woof woof woof" :-)
> >
> >
> > -- jeffj
>
>