Denis,
Thank you for your reply. Since I do not use the floppy drive I would like to
try it first. Do you know where can I find pin definitions for floppy
controller interface?
Regards,
- Levi
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Denis Dowling wrote:
> Hi Levi,
>
> No simple options immediately come to mind. A few ideas do some to mind
> though.
> 1) If you are not using the floppy then you can control some of the pins
> on this to give output. Things like head select and direction can be
> controlled by writing the correct IO port.
>
> 2) The IR port gives serial IO. You could use a little microcontroller
> to convert to parallel. It is possible to get some 2x16 LCD modules that
> accept serial input. Makes for a nice front panel display.
>
> 3) Buy a small USB port replicator and plug this into the internal USB
> port. I have not tried the USB support yet so this might be a no-go.
>
> Regards,
> Denis.
>
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