Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-30049823-20190909232421/@comment-30049823-20190909233234

Hmm, the Boston TSU-501 would let you share programs digitally via web downloads or just email attachments... but isn't very practical since so few people own that archaic thing. It's pretty cool; the touchscreen and hard buttons are all programmable with some PC software. But now that I think about it, I recall that it used a serial port and a special cable that plugged into the "headphone jack" at the back. Who the frick even has a working PC with a serial port anymore?

A more practical idea would be for someone with a Disk Shot remote to buy a bunch of these things (6-button learning IR remotes), program the buttons by "listening to" the original Disk Shot remote, and then resell them, pre-programmed.

Way easier/cheaper than building an Arduino or finding a working Boston TSU-501 and installing the software onto an antique PC to program it.