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From: cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt)
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Subject: adding a control box to a Sun 3/160
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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.

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

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