Alan G. Smith wrote:
>  My programmer has been working GREAT for quite a while and then today all of
 a
>  sudden the PC no
> longer can find it.
> (YES, SMART ALECK, IT IS PLUGGED IN!)  Can anyone tell me quickly what the
>  signal is that the
> programmer looks for on the parallel port so that I can *hopefully* quickly
 find
>  the problem and get
> rid of it.

Have a look at the DOS and windows drivers at:
http://www.dontronics.com/download.html

Nigel Goodwin has put in a test feature that may assist you greatly.
You really are just looking for an ouput on pin 2 that loops back to an
input on pin 10 via a 7407. I haven't tried a simple link yet, but this
may work as the program is designed to auto-detect the printer port.

Don McKenzie  mailto:don@dontronics.com   http://www.dontronics.com

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