31 May
2007
31 May
'07
9:41 a.m.
--- Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
Tony, why don't you just build yourself a USB
host
controller that you
can interface to your PERQ or PDP11's? It shouldn't
be all that hard to
do, you could even use some common, modern
(inexpensive) microcontroller
to do this, I bet, like a PIC.
The protocols are all documented, either by
available open source
software, or "real" documentation. There's the
issue of not having
schematics for the camera, I guess, but I'm sure you
can find people
here that would be willing to send you for free...
and when that one
breaks, another for free.
Not a bad suggestion, but he probably won't want to
work up the software (just my guess). All you need is
one of those pcmcia adapters for a desktop pc (does he
have one of those?), although they're kind of slow.
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