4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
7:31 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:38 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 4/4/2006 at 8:17 PM Teo Zenios wrote:
Wish I could find some free web space to that extent...!
They have a Pentium board for $619-$1189 depending
on the Pentium chip (3
Year ALR warranty, is that company even around anymore?), that site must
have prices from 1997 still up!
They must be getting free web space to leave the site up that long! Too
bad. Maybe a note to the folks at
http://www.electronicsurplus.com might turn up
something--they always seem to have lots of odds and ends.
Got that site loading, but for some reason it's being slow.
Failing everything, there's always using something
like a PIC (programmed
in C, of course :) ) to translate a serial keybaord to parallel ASCII...
Seems to me I remember one of Steve Ciarcia's articles in Byte had a rather
nifty little circuit to do that job, and it wasn't that complicated, just a
few gates and such -- I'm gonna have to dig that article out, if I still
have it. I remember thinking that it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to
plug an eprom into the output side of it to convert scan codes to ascii or
whatever else I might want...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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