"Grumman-581" writes:

You would send a particular formated TCP/IP message via a
socket connection to a particular controller that would then change the
intensity of the LEDs in the specified zone...

Seriously? Is it an aircraft or a video game?

And people think I'm being extreme in suggesting FM radio instead of
AM radio?

Quite a bit of the
communication between the various devices was handled via TCP/IP
communication... I believe that Rockwell had been granted a patent on that
approach...

A patent on TCP/IP? Would anyone really want to steal something based
on TCP/IP?

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