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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: Hardware controller idea
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Date: 30 Sep 90 18:26:46 GMT
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In article <26ffa898.6cf9@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> dgiles@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Darren Giles) writes:
>   A friend of mine is working on a project, and wanted to get some
>feedback on what the alleged "real world" thinks.  Basically, it'd be
>a multi-controller which would talk to a computer through a serial
>port on one end, and all kinds of goodies through various signals on
>the other.  Tenatively, it would have 4 analog inputs and 20 digital
>input/output (software selectable) lines.
[...]
>costs down to around $100 or so per unit.  Please mail me if you

Sorry, but what's wrong with ADB? (aside from the # of inputs available).
(Forgive me if I'm being dense here--maybe this would simplify
some design stuff I don't know about.) Most people aren't going to have
>7 inputs connected to their Mac, eh? (Sounds good for lab &
industrial use, though.)
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