Computers
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The five miles of conductor around the house terminate at a telephone punch panel and are fed (via the ribbon cables) into data acquisition hardware on a PC. Also shown are a speaker control board (upper left) and a microcontroller for the lights, electric outlets, and fans (lower right).
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The PC is connected via a serial line to a DEC alpha, on which the neural network and control software run.
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An old NeXT serves as the voice of the house, connected to the DEC alpha via by ethernet and connected to the rest of the universe by a dedicated SLIP connection.