Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!cpawn From: cpawn@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Andrew W Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: What can you do with a PC game port? Keywords: pc-game port resistance photocell temperature probe Message-ID: <1991Apr4.045235.17509@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Date: 4 Apr 91 04:52:35 GMT References: <40093@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland Lines: 38 In article larry@fungus.UUCP (Larry Ng) writes: >mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes: > >> There are two analog inputs (resistance), correct? Suppose I connect >> a photocell across one and the temperature probe from a microwave oven >> across the other; would I then be able to read the room temperature and >> light intensity (assuming I've worked out the scaling of values)? >> >> Could someone mail me a list of the pin descriptions for the game port? >> Is it possible to OUTPUT anything through the game port? > >Hey, I was thinking of that too! (Great minds think alike? ;-) >Could someone also send me those list of pin descriptions please? > > >********************************************************************* >Group :Fungal Growth Engineering and Testing Range >Location :Toronto, Ontario, Canada (44x N/79x W) >Organization :Fungal Growth Club of Canada >UUCP Address : ...uunet!mnetor!hybrid!spocom!fungus!larry >or : larry@fungus.UUCP >Ancient Chinese-Canadian Curse: May a 7% tax be on everything you see, >eat and hear. How about posting the results of any replies up here. I am sure there are many interested people. Myself included. AtDhVaAnNkCsE, Andrew. -- _--_|\,-----From Townsville in sunny North Queensland * / \ * * \_.--._/ Andrew Nicholson cpawn@marlin.jcu.edu.au ' v *