Re: Controlling A5000 printer port for I/O

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From: sdaveyj
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:09

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In article <gv4qbtd7@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, esuce@warwick.ac.uk (John Catchpole) writes:
> In article <Bv5o01.BwE@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Philip.Banks@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Richard Banks) writes:
>>   I too would be highly interested in this kind of information. Also useful
>>would be someway of detecting if their is a device attached to the parallel
>>port other than a printer...
> 
> Me too.  Does this mean we have a way of constructing an expansion card/podule
> that can use the printer port on an A4?  I'm more interested in video
> digitising, but if a sound digitiser can use the printer port then perhaps a

A friend of mine has a 33MHz 386 PC and has a 100x100pixel 16 colour digitiser
that works through the printer port. It even grabs in real time I think

It could probably be done quite easy on the A5000

                John Davey

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