IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996

According to Hackaday, IBM in the nineteen nineties envisioned the personal computer as the command center for home automation. The Aptiva line of PCs featured the IBM Home Director system, an early attempt to network household devices — a concept that was decades ahead of mainstream adoption.

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