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Mach Discussion => Feature Requests => Topic started by: calmissile on October 05, 2008, 02:57:48 AM

Title: Need strobe signal on parallel port enabled.
Post by: calmissile on October 05, 2008, 02:57:48 AM

After spending long hours and reverse engineering the PC Interface Board on my Emco Compact 5 PC, I discovered that the data inputs require an accompanying strobe signal in order to read the data.  As I recall the parallel port normally sends a strobe signal to the printer on this port with the data.  If there is any way to enable the strobe output concurrent with the data it will save me a lot of time designing and building a hardware kludge to work around the problem.
Thanks,

Doug Wilson (Calmissile)  dwilson@linkline.com

Title: Re: Need strobe signal on parallel port enabled.
Post by: Mcgyver on October 05, 2008, 05:39:34 AM

Hi

i got an article from a friend who has a compact 5 pc..

He got the machine running  with the old drivers...

MAybe this will help

regards

mcgyver