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Re: Arrrrrrrgggg!
Tom,
What a difference a decimal point makes!
0.4 is not fast at all.
As you say, well within what a printer port can handle.
It would be best to make the Make IV "look" exactly like a
"standard" parallel device. Drivers exist and there are
endless parallel to whatever converter boxes, Ethernet connected
parallel ports and so on. That's why I suggested using some
common interface.
Yes, I know of examples of long, fast parallel cables. SCSI is the
best example. They can push 160 MBps (160 million bytes per second)
across a room using a differential cable.
Fraser Farrell's idea of using a termial and print server box at
the camera is a good one. One of these little boxes would connect
to the STAMP's serial line and the scanner's parallel line. The
server then puts these on the building's Ethernet and you'v got a
network accessable Mark IV for cheap.
Tom Droege wrote:
>
> Chris and all,
>
> That is 0.4 MHz. And we have already done it at NOFS down 100' of cable,
> so there is an existence proof that it can be done.
<SNIP>
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