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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Homebrew digitizer
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Date: 18 Mar 91 04:45:07 GMT
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From unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
>        What molex connector are you talking about?

    Ummm, the 7-pin thingy down in the lower-right corner of the motherboard,
where the ribbon cable from a Sonic Blaster/HyperStudio digitizer plugs in. 
Isn't that called a Molex?

>         To my understanding, the GS and Mac serial ports are virtually
> identical, hardwarewise. Thus, it would be much easier to just still
> have it connect to the serial port, and then no hardware changes will
> be needed.
>
>         The software will obviously have to be re-written, but that would
> be the case whether or not it used the serial port.

    Right, I've talked to Dave Huang since then, and we agreed that using the
CDS as it is and writing new software would be a better approach.  At first, I
didn't think the GS serial port would be able to keep up with the data stream
(22K/sec mono, 44K/sec stereo).

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."