Mr. Marley wrote:
>
> greetings,
>
>         I finally got my starter package from Wirz Electronics, great
> all around
> service and super fast Fed Ex delivery to Canada have gotten me all
> hyped up with
> my new toy!
>
>         You have to imagine my surprise when I saw it was a KIT! I
> wasn't
> expecting that,

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Like a lot of users just now, Ben Wirz is in family mode until the 4th
Jan, so he can't respond.

See:
http://www.dontronics.com/dt001.html
http://www.dontronics.com/dt001cha.html
for the full assembly instructions.

See:
http://www.dontronics.com/chat.html
for how to join the Simmstick list server chat group.

These people will assist you also.

>         Oh well, I guess you'll be hearing from me soon either way. I
> would also
> like to know if there is any protective circuit I can build to
> guarantee I won't fry my
> onboard ports fiddling with this thing. I really don't feel like
> worrying about this sort
> of stuff. Is there any way to isolate the circuit while keeping it
> linked? Opto isolation?
>
>         Thanks for bearing through this textual torture I call a post.
>
>         Andrew

When you play with hardware on a printer port, the best advise I can
give is get an individual cheap (perhaps old) printer card. Then you
don't have to worry about on board ports.
Most users on this list I would think, will tell you the same thing.

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

Don's Download Dungeon http://www.dontronics.com/download.html
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or mailto:simstick@dontronics.com or mailto:basics@dontronics.com