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Maurice Kinal -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> Modified kit set from a hobby shop, running from the printer port (as
 DD>> eight latching digital outlets).

 MK> That a good idea.  I was thinking of doing a simular thing with certain
 MK> GPS recievers as they often run out of io on a regular serial port and a
 MK> modified pp makes more sense for those as then all io can be taken care
 MK> of by one connection.  Beats me why they didn't do that in the first
 MK> place especially considering that the pp didn't suffer the same fate as
 MK> regular serial ports did.

 DD>> Rolled the software myself, first in DOS, then OS/2 and now Linux.

 MK> I skipped over OS/2.  :-)

Linux wasn't available to me when I was ready to drop DOS.

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regards

David