Hi,
https://archive.org/details/gamewell-fire-retransmission-program-1987by-walt-perko Fire Retransmission is: There’s a fire … the building alarms go off and they alert the alarm company … the alarm company verifies the fire while ReTransmiting the alarm to the closest or appropriate fire station. The fire stations have these 1880 Gamewell machines that make dots on a tape that correspond to the building address, so the fire crew knows where to go. The digital system I wrote/made for the TRS-80 Model 100 computer allows the alarm company people to type in the name, address etc. where the fire is, but also sends the code via telephone lines to the fire station TRS-80 Model 100 computer that uses the tape control signal to trigger the Gamewell machines to print the codes at the fire station. Takes two TRS-80 Model 100 computers to complete the circuit. I hope somebody with better eyes might be able to copy the two programs in TRS-80 Model 100 computer BASIC and post the two programs for people to play with. Maybe email me copies for my website too. ============================================================================================== C U L8r, °|° Walt Perko °|° "Kids ... teach them the good stuff, and they still learn the bad stuff on their own." http://www.R2Pv1.com/ RoboGuts™ Intelligent content for 3D printing making S.T.E.A.M. education better, easier and more affordable Experiments to learn how to use various Electronic Components, Structured Computer Programming, Phonemes for Speech &Song in any language, and Art. "The World Needs a New Economic Model" ============================================================================================== Sent from the Cyber7 From: M100 On Behalf Of B9 Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 7:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M100] Gamewell Fire Retransmission Programs for Model 100 computers ... If it is worth preserving, I highly recommend also uploading the software and documentation to the Internet Archive. (Archive.org). All you need to do is create a free account. The Internet Archive also runs the Wayback Machine, which has already archived brainless.org, so theoretically your files may already be saved. http://waybackmachine.org/brainless.org However, that's not a great way to preserve anything because it will be a needle in a haystack. Creating an account and directly uploading will let you add in the keywords and other metadata so that people will actually find your programs when they search. What is "Fire Retransmission"? --b9 P.S. here's an example of what software preserved on the Internet Archive looks like: https://archive.org/details/node-datapac-rom On October 23, 2025 4:01:14 PM PDT, Walt Perko <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi, Back in the 1980s I wrote these programs to be the first digital fire retransmission system for Bay Alarm Co. in Oakland, CA. https://www.brainless.org/MultiMedia/Documents/GamewellFireRetransmissionProgram1987byWaltPerko.doc Modern hobby stuff (Arduino, PICAXE, Raspberry Pi etc.) can be used to make a miniature Gamewell receiver. It would be nice to see something like that setup in a museum somewhere and surely, the software should be preserved besides on my website which will probably go away after I die. Maybe somebody can post it to the Club100.org too? ============================================================================================== C U L8r, °|° Walt Perko °|° "Kids ... teach them the good stuff, and they still learn the bad stuff on their own." http://www.R2Pv1.com/ RoboGuts™ Intelligent content for 3D printing making S.T.E.A.M. education better, easier and more affordable Experiments to learn how to use various Electronic Components, Structured Computer Programming, Phonemes for Speech &Song in any language, and Art. "The World Needs a New Economic Model" ============================================================================================== Sent from the Cyber7
