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excerpt: "Previous efforts to respond to and control the outside world with a QL have not been successful. Prairie Digital developed an A/D I/O (Analog /Digital Input/Output) board that was not particularly facile and had quality control problems."
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# Remote Control by the QL

Previous efforts to respond to and control the outside world with a QL have not been successful. Prairie Digital developed an A/D I/O (Analog /Digital Input/Output) board that was not particularly facile and had quality control problems.