Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!dragon!sekoppenhoef From: sekoppenhoef@rose.waterloo.edu (Shawn E. Koppenhoefer) Subject: Re: How do I get sensor data into a pc? In-Reply-To: baron@donald.uhcc.hawaii.edu's message of 9 Jul 90 22:03:00 GMT Message-ID: Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes) Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada References: <8546@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 9 Jul 90 21:10:50 Lines: 43 On 9 Jul 90 22:03:00 GMT, baron@donald.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Baron Fujimoto) said: Baron> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Baron> and .01 second accuracy. While I have a vague idea of what I would like Baron> to do (get switch opening/closing info into the PC -- probably via the Baron> parallel port -- and use software to determine which switch has been Baron> activated and some built in timer function to determine elasped time), Baron> I am rather clueless as to the actual implementation. The book to read on this is: "Interfacing Sensors to the IBM PC" editors Willis Tompkins John Webster Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 ISBN 0-13-469081-8 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| _ _ KLEIN BOTTLE for sale... Shawn E. Koppenhoefer | | enquire within. ...watmath!rose!sekoppenhoef | - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~sekoppenhoef@rose.uwaterloo.ca sekoppenhoef@rose.uwaterloo.edu