> Dear Piclist,
>
>                     I've been using PICs and Stamps for 2 years now.
> beginning at school and now playing with them at home using
> MPASM. I would
> like to start experimenting with the serial port. more
> precisely I would
> like to send 8-bit data to the PIC and get some back. My main
> problem isn't
> on the PIC side of things as there is a wealth of code and
> examples around,
> my problem is finding the software to send the data and to
> receive it. I
> have a little knowledge of using Delphi and QBasic but don't
> know how to
> implement the serial port. A program to send/receive the data
> would be good
> enough at the moment.
>
> If anyone knows of such a program or knows of detail of how
> to do this in
> Delphi (I'm on version 4 at the moment) (I'd rather not use
> QBasic) I'd be
> very grateful.

You might want to take a look at the TurboPower AsyncPro components,
available from www.turbopower.com - i have used this in many projects for
the transmission of ASCII data, so it should be sufficient for your needs.

These VCL components work in Delphi 1-5, and include source code.

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