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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: HERO 2000
Message-ID: <22453@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 19:28:37 GMT
References: <9101061917.aa18056@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <9101061917.aa18056@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU> rhutchin@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
}... I'm sure the connection
}is good because I get a little startup and shutdown "noise" on my terminal,
}which is usually a couple of characters.

Are the characters sensible/expected?  If not, look for baud rate and/or
parity problems.  Hook it up to a standard, dumb terminal if you can, just
to avoid confusing more than one issue at a time. (Apologies to K&R (-: ).

}Does anybody have experience with this robot.  ...

Heath took it off the market almost two years ago, allegedly because of
mechanical problems with the arm.  That's all I know.

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