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From: kolstad@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Favorite LCD display?
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.143802.18640@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 14:38:02 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.044845.18652@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> steveq@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Stephen Quigg) writes:
>In article <1267@soleil.UUCP> gopstein@helix.squibb.com (Rich Gopstein) writes:
>>
>>I am going to build an interface to an OEM GPS receiver with RS-232
>>output.   I would like to use an inexpensive multiline LCD display
>>to show the status and current position textually (at least at first).
>>I shouldn't need more than about 16x4 characters.
>--- stuff deleted---
>>
>>Rich Gopstein
>>
>You'll need a micro to do the serial to parallel for you: If you use an
>8051, drop me a line and I'll post you the software I wrote for one of these
>things.

And if you're still back in the stone ages using 8748/9's (or their EPROMless
brothers), drop _me_ a line and I'll post what I wrote for one. :-)

(I should note that mine use 4 bit mode... didn't want to give the controller
any more lines than I had to...)

						---Joel Kolstad
						kolstad@jomby.cs.wisc.edu