comp.arch.embedded rs232 to vga converter Due in large part to messages here and rec.crafts.metalworking about searches for various type of crt controllers I've built one & placed it on the market. It generates large letters in 8 line/20 characters per line and 6 line/12 characters per line formats. A 9 pin d-sub connector for rs-232 input and a 15 pin hd dsub connector for output to a vga monitor are enclosed by a small plastic housing. At one side is a connector for a "wall mount" style transformer which is included. If anyone is interested, www.rs-big-print.com has a photo and more information. Hul
rs232 to vga converter
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In article <fn5m1f$m9o$1@reader2.panix.com>, ht@panix.com says...> comp.arch.embedded > rs232 to vga converter > > Due in large part to messages here and rec.crafts.metalworking > about searches for various type of crt controllers I've built one & placed > it on the market. It generates large letters in 8 line/20 characters per > line and 6 line/12 characters per line formats. > A 9 pin d-sub connector for rs-232 input and a 15 pin hd dsub > connector for output to a vga monitor are enclosed by a small plastic > housing. At one side is a connector for a "wall mount" style transformer > which is included. > If anyone is interested, www.rs-big-print.com has a photo and more > information. > > HulClever, but your fonts (which appear to use a 5x7 grid) need some work. What's wrong with a typical LCD 5x7 font? --Gene
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Gene S. Berkowitz wrote:> Clever, but your fonts (which appear to use a 5x7 grid) need some work. > What's wrong with a typical LCD 5x7 font?Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing! Regards, -- Mark McDougall, Engineer Virtual Logic Pty Ltd, <http://www.vl.com.au> 21-25 King St, Rockdale, 2216 Ph: +612-9599-3255 Fax: +612-9599-3266
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On 2008-01-23, Mark McDougall <markm@vl.com.au> wrote:> Gene S. Berkowitz wrote: > >> Clever, but your fonts (which appear to use a 5x7 grid) need some work. >> What's wrong with a typical LCD 5x7 font? > > Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing!That was my first reaction: the fonts are brutal to look at. The upper case R is particularly painful. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I will invent "TIDY at BOWL"... visi.com
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Hul Tytus wrote:> comp.arch.embedded > rs232 to vga converter > > Due in large part to messages here and rec.crafts.metalworking > about searches for various type of crt controllers I've built one & placed > it on the market. It generates large letters in 8 line/20 characters per > line and 6 line/12 characters per line formats. > A 9 pin d-sub connector for rs-232 input and a 15 pin hd dsub > connector for output to a vga monitor are enclosed by a small plastic > housing. At one side is a connector for a "wall mount" style transformer > which is included. > If anyone is interested, www.rs-big-print.com has a photo and more > information. > > Hulhttp://www.dontronics-shop.com/Micro-VGA-p-1-c-262.html has a range of TTL to VGA, off the shelf devices. Don... -- Don McKenzie Affiliate Program: http://www.dontronics.com/affiliate Site Map: http://www.dontronics.com/sitemap E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.dontronics.com/email No More Damn Spam: http://www.wizard-of-oz.com Parallax Propeller Powered .96" OLED module http://tinyurl.com/2vr2gr
Reply by ●January 23, 20082008-01-23
Hul Tytus wrote:> rs232 to vga converter > > Due in large part to messages here and rec.crafts.metalworking > about searches for various type of crt controllers I've built one & placed > it on the market. It generates large letters in 8 line/20 characters per > line and 6 line/12 characters per line formats. > A 9 pin d-sub connector for rs-232 input and a 15 pin hd dsub > connector for output to a vga monitor are enclosed by a small plastic > housing. At one side is a connector for a "wall mount" style transformer > which is included.Here's a similar project: http://www.serasidis.gr/circuits/AVR_VGA/avr_vga.htm
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are
successful in finding employers who are prepared to pay the price
per head which they demand, a sum of about �10. In the meanwhile
however, it appears from the Report that nearly 4-1/2 per cent of
the inmates of the depots are discovered and redeemed by their
friends, the numbers being 414 at Singapore, and 278 at Penang,
and a further 1-3/4 per cent, or 236 at Singapore, and 55 at
Penang, are shown under the headings "released and returned to
China," having presumably been discovered to have been kidnaped.
Of the total number of "unpaid passengers" arriving at Singapore
and Penang, about 91 per cent eventually sign contracts and are
made over to their employers or their agents, the majority of
these being shipped off, under escort as before to the Native
States of the Malay Peninsula or other neighboring countries, to
labour for a fixed term of years after which the coolie is free to
return to his native land or to seek such other employment as he
may see fit.
Such are the circumstances under which thousands of our fellow
beings are annually brought to the labour market at Singapore, and
it must be admitted that, to say the least of it, the
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per cent of the "unpaid passengers". On
arrival at the depot, the coolies are probably surprised to find
themselves securely confined in houses which look uncomfortably
like prisons, and the passer-by may see the dirty and unkempt
_sin-khehs_ or "new men," as these emigrants are called, peering
out between the thick wooden bars of the windows. The coolies
are thus forcibly detained at the depots until the brokers are
successful in finding employers who are prepared to pay the price
per head which they demand, a sum of about �10. In the meanwhile
however, it appears from the Report that nearly 4-1/2 per cent of
the inmates of the depots are discovered and redeemed by their
friends, the numbers being 414 at Singapore, and 278 at Penang,
and a further 1-3/4 per cent, or 236 at Singapore, and 55 at
Penang, are shown under the headings "released and returned to
China," having presumably been discovered to have been kidnaped.
Of the total number of "unpaid passengers" arriving at Singapore
and Penang, about 91 per cent eventually sign contracts and are
made over to their employers or their agents, the majo
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in life, of
liberty, character, law, even of life itself (for it is a process
of slow murder to which she is subjected), for the supposed
benefit of men who are mean enough to avail themselves of this
provision of lust.
"Besides being grossly unjust, as between men and women, this law
is a piece of class legislation of an extreme kind. The position
and wealth of men of the upper classes place the women belonging
to them above any chance of being accused of prostitution. Ladies
who ride in carriages through the street at night are in no danger
of being molested. But what about working women? what about the
daughters, sisters and wives of working men, out, it may be, on
an errand of mercy at night? and what, most of all, of that girl
whose father, mother, friends are dead or far away, who is
struggling hard, in a hard world, to live uprightly and justly
by the work of her own hands,--is she in no danger of this law?
Lonely and friendless, and poor, is she in no danger of a false
accusation from malice or from error? especially since under this
law _homeless_ girls are particularly marked out as just subjects
for its operation; and if she is accused, what has she to rely on,
under God, except that of which this law deprives her, the appeal
to be tried 'by God and my country,' by which it is understood
that she claims the judicial means of defense to which the law of
the land entitles her?
"I will only add that this law has a fatally corrupting influence
over the male youth of every country where it is in force. It
warps the conscience, and confuses the sense of right and wrong.
When the State raises this immoral traffic into the position of a
lawful industry, superintended by Government officials, what are
the young and ignorant to think? They cannot believe that that
which the Government of the country allows, and makes rules for,
