On 05/24/2012 03:13 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
Um. Is that
not what the design that's been floating around (the one
with the 555s) does?
I don't know much about paper tape (I never saw it in person), but
I'd use just a good old microcontroller (like an Atmega 8, as an
example) and do all processing inside, to spit IEEE488, serial or
parallel ascii data.
As would I (distributed processing is a good thing), but that design
is extremely simple, and quite old as I understand it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA