Re: Reporting Data 1-Way-Out?

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@bellsouth.net>]

On 5/27/08 4:42 AM, in article Jt-dnczPP_HgVKbVnZ2dnUVZ_ofinZ2d@comcast.com,
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> winston19842005 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/23/08 10:25 AM, in article 4lkd345o0oqjv052od187ggik2nl5anos0@4ax.com,
>> "Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I think I have found what I'm looking for. Vernier has a legacy
>>> product called a "Serial Box" that connects to a serial port and can
>>> take different kinds of (Vernier?) sensors, do the A->D work, and then
>>> pump it to the serial port. I have not yet seen how to to serial port
>>> programming via the ToolBox, but that's for another newsgroup post, I
>>> think this went pretty OT as it is.
>>> 
>>> Thanks all!
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Maybe - perhaps. But it was a fun read!
>> 
>> I always wanted to get one of those X10 systems for my TI... and there were
>> some a->d cards available (early on)...
> 
> And they still show up on eBay from time to time.
> 
> But for making 8-bit measurements of *slowly changing* quantities,
> it's often quite easy to interface sensors to the game port.
> 
> That makes taking a reading as easy as using the PDL() function,
> and plotting and communication are very simple exercises.
> 
> Broderbund made products and Vector made a business out of interfacing
> simple sensors to the game port--it's a shame that people don't seem to
> appreciate its versatility and simplicity.
> 
> In my book, technical elegance = function / complexity.  You don't
> get a high score by shooting for a complex solution to a simple
> problem.  ;-)

That's terrific for Apple computers, but TI's have a digital joystick port.
So it would take some additional logic of some kind anyway...

Of course, this was back in the day before I owned an Apple. I have a couple
of //e's and a //c.