>You can buy what I have which is an LCD unit with easy to program interface
>which I plug into my printer port. Alot better than some high consuming LED
>display.
>It hold 40 char by 2 lines and runs on ~5V and practically runs forever..
>
>With the printer port you can at least add buttons and stuff to acknowledge
>messages and so one and the LCD units you can pick up from around the place.
Yes, if one can salvage these things out of fax machines or taxi bid
thingies, they make a nice hardware project. There are many pages around
on interfacing LCD displays to parallel ports.
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