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From: cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: adding a control box to a Sun workstation serial port
Keywords: control box Sun workstation
Message-ID: <598@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Aug 90 14:49:56 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
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Hi,

Does anyone use/have experience of attaching a "button box"
to a Sun for use in control experiments.

We have a user here who currently uses the mouse to control some
software. He wants to move all this function over to a "button box"
with up to six buttons on it. I guess he needs:-

	- a "button box"
	- a connection to a serial port 
	- a device driver (?) running on Sun to read from the port

Do "button boxes" with serial output exist or are they called micros -): 

BTW it is a Sun 3/160 running 4.0.3. Any help appreciated.

cheers,
gerry
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gerry pratt - workstation support - university of keele
email: cca13@uk.ac.keele.seq1 * tel: 0782 621111 x 3290