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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!not-for-mail From: gfm@werple.mira.net.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Interfacing sensors to FreeBSD Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 02:09:16 GMT Organization: Werple Internet, Melbourne Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32a238a1.14113944@news.mira.net.au> References: <57pos2$2ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> <57q5nb$k8p@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dp-m-f039.werple.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 bacon@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Jason Wayne Bacon) wrote: > There are ADC's available that plug into a parallel port. That > would probably be the simplest solution for Unix, since the bus > > Don't ask me where to buy them in Australia, though. :-) Emona Instruments in Melbourne sell a range of products called Pico Logic (or something like that) that are parallel port ADCs. They come with a DOS program and library. I haven't tried it, but it looks like it would be fairly easy to implement under FreeBSD et al. Graham