Re: Serial to crt or vga adapter

"Jim Granville" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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test wrote:
I want to get a small pc104 powerpc board but most have no video or if
they do it is in the form of a lcd output. So how am i suppose to output
the video to a crt screen. I have a special screen that is to my specs
and i am forced to use it. It is a vga 640X480 60hz 16color screen and i
just want to output some text from a small embedded board.
So any suggestions like using a serial to vga adapter to output the text?
So if you know of any adapters please email back.

Sounds like an ideal fit for our Vga-232 module :)

http://www.designtools.co.nz/vga_232.htm

Supports scaled Text, and uses a simple string interface, outputs
640x480 16 colours.

Boy, this brings back memories. Especially when I visited the site and saw
(e)ANSI.

I've worked for a couple of public display companies (airports, public
transport etc) where this kind of gizmo was fairly common. Somewhere on this
drive I have antique code (wot I writ) for a script language (wot I devised)
for driving them...

Bah. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. ;)

Steve

PS: this led me on a bit of a hunt which yielded this, from the early days
of GPS:
http://www.sfdesign.co.uk/docs/ee-gps-hanover.pdf
The last page has a dodgy picture of me. You have been warned. (Hint: I'm
the bald-yet-still-hairy primate on the left.)

http://www.fivetrees.com


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