Circuit Cellar Ink 10
August/September 1989

Table of Contents

1


Curtis Franklin, Jr.

PDF Editor's INK

CEBus on the Ragged Edge

5

Reader's INK

Letters to the Editor

8

New Product News

12

Visible INK

Letters to the INK Research Staff

15


John Eng

An Intelligent SCSI Data Acquisition System for the Apple Macintosh

Part 2 -- Macintosh Programming the Easy Way

Macintosh programming has a bad reputation but you can write useable Macintosh software without diving into screen regions and mouse events.

Download: DAQ3000.ASM SCSIFAST.ASM SCSIMOVE.PAS

22


Mark Dahmke

Tracking Soviet Television Satellites

The Soviet Union uses an impressive array of broadcast satellites to send television throughout their country. If you live in North America you can track and receive from these satellites using Mark Dahmke's techniques.

Download: SATELLIT.TXT

32


Ed Nisley

A Network for Distributed Control

Part 1 -- Building an RS-485 Network for Controllers

Networks are moving out of offices into control environments. In the first article of a series, Ed Nisley presents networking basics.

40


Ken Davidson

PDF CEBus: A New Standard in Home Automation

The First In-Depth Technical Description

The EIA's standard for home automation shows great promise for revolutionizing the home automation field. In this first technical look, Ken Davidson looks at the details of the proposed standard.

54

Circuit Cellar INK Design Contest Winners

57


Tom Cantrell

Silicon Update

Beyond ASICs

New-Generation PLDs' Cost and Flexibility Benefits

62


Ed Nisley

Firmware Furnace

Exposing the Unseeable

Peering deep into code with the help of a single strategic bit

Download: TRACER.ASM TRACER.COM

65

Advertiser's Index

69


Jeff Bachiochi

From the Bench

To Participate is to Win

73


Jack Ganssle

Software by Design

Signal Smoothing

Taking the Rough Edges off of Real-World Data

74


Ken Davidson

ConnecTime -- Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS

80


Steve Ciarcia

Steve's Own INK

Don't Mess with Mother Nature

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