Re: Apple II ADCs

[fl332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John L. Graham)]

Neat stuff! heh, heh, so far all the data acquisition software we've
written for the GS has been in AC/BASIC. Well....some of our original
code was in TML BASIC, but that's a sad story best forgotten :)

As far as redesigning a system to duplicate what you're doing with a
platform independent package sounds VERY doable. I checked with Doug
about the 1200 baud comm rate and he told me he actually slows it down
to 1200 baud because a lot of the software he uses (including TimeOut
Telecomm) defaults to 1200 baud.

Speaking of AC/BASIC, the test code I'll be writing for our system will
be written in it, AND we're already running a system reading data from
an external device over the GS's serial port (a boxcar integrator/
averager) using AC/BASIC. We've also done similar work with a IIe using
ZBasic, and it worked like a charm.

We're big fans of taking this approach to data acquisition for the
very reason you mentioned about the problem finding Apple II specific
cards. That is, once we make it generic you can take data with practically
ANYTHING. Doug was kidding around this afternoon tinkering with the idea
of doing some test work with a PC-4 he just got. No doubt it's fun stuff.

Have fun!

John