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- From: wind@bae.bae.bellcore.com (Wind Chen)
- Subject: Re: Want: Parellel to Serial converter, or help info to build one
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.172045.23770@walter.bellcore.com>
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- References: <1993Jan21.030156.20382@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <C18Gw1.FwC@waterloo.hp.com> <1993Jan22.031528.7568@mcs.kent.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:20:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.031528.7568@mcs.kent.edu>, rothstei@Monkey.mcs.kent.edu (Michael Rothstein) writes:
- |> In article <C18Gw1.FwC@waterloo.hp.com> rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma) writes:
- |> >
- |> >Probably your best bet. Try Black Box - their catalog contains just about
- |> >everything :-)
- |> >
- |> >Regards,
- |> >
- |> >Ted Rypma
- |> >HP Panacom Division
- |> I would strongly recommend a buffered converter, (at least a converter with
- |> a buffer bigger than 2 bits); a few years back, Black Box's converter did not
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- I know "bigger than 32K bytes" is also "bigger than 2 bits", but "2 bits"?
- All Black Box's P/S converter that I know has buffer build-in, from Par to
- Ser., converter without buffer is unlike to work.
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- |> work because it dropped data on the floor. The scenario was that the
- |> printer filled its buffer, set a line to stop the data, and similarly, the
- |> converter did the same thing, but in the interim, a few characters would
- |> have been sent, which got lost. This was because the buffer in the converter
- |> was too small. (Probably a 16550 UART might do the trick, I haven't tried it).
- |> --
- |> Michael Rothstein (Kent State U)| Any similarity between Kent State's opinions
- |> (rothstei@cs.kent.edu) | and my opinions is strictly coincidential.
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