Remote Control ON/OFF Computers
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:17 pm
Turning computers On and Off with remote control power boards: I have been setting up a computer room for some of my Vintage Computers and trying out different things, really I want the most convenience possible and thought I would try one of those remote control power boards so computers can be turned on and shut off via remote control instead of feeling around for on/off switches and crawling under the table to turn off the power
I was wondering how well it would work, and I can confirm it works really well, no I can sit there and flick a computer on just by pressing a button on the remote, when I want to shut them off, I just press "all off" and a relay kills all the power, meaning my computers are definitely not live! and therefore safe and I am not prepared to go out with 30 year old PSU's live (eg: C64's etc) I seem to be getting one hardware failure every few hours
The monitors are piggy backed on the computers power plugs so both turn on together, there are four computers
for four sockets, the PC monitor is for the PC that can be used to play wave files into the VZ200/System80/Spectrum, I wrote the program to convert VZ200 emulator images into Wave files myself last year.
The computer closest is a spectrum (what a pretty cool spectrum to) with full keyboard and home made interfaces and
doesn't have one of those bizarre crap ribbon cables that sinclair used.
Im only working things out so far, so I used Unisys data cassettes as ends, they will be replaced.
I was wondering how well it would work, and I can confirm it works really well, no I can sit there and flick a computer on just by pressing a button on the remote, when I want to shut them off, I just press "all off" and a relay kills all the power, meaning my computers are definitely not live! and therefore safe and I am not prepared to go out with 30 year old PSU's live (eg: C64's etc) I seem to be getting one hardware failure every few hours
The monitors are piggy backed on the computers power plugs so both turn on together, there are four computers
for four sockets, the PC monitor is for the PC that can be used to play wave files into the VZ200/System80/Spectrum, I wrote the program to convert VZ200 emulator images into Wave files myself last year.
The computer closest is a spectrum (what a pretty cool spectrum to) with full keyboard and home made interfaces and
doesn't have one of those bizarre crap ribbon cables that sinclair used.
Im only working things out so far, so I used Unisys data cassettes as ends, they will be replaced.