Re: [Boston.pm] i'm on a database kick

[Andrew M. Langmead]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:54:33AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> srl [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>I've got a CueCat barcode reader, available free at Radio Shack,
> *>just waiting for a use. This might be it. Haven't played with it yet
> *>at all. 
> 
> I looked at doing this but I lack a PC and my soldering iron went missing.

I looked into how to hook up a cue cat to a serial port. The project
got stalled because I couldn't find a standalone 8042 keyboard
controller anywhere. Most people now make combination
keyboard/serial/parallel/ATA/USB controllers. ("Super I/O" chips.)

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Andrew Langmead