Spyridon Dimitriou wrote :

> I need to drive step motors in real time but do not want to
> tie up a computer to do this full time. So I would like to
> program a pic to receive instructions via the parallel port...

Any special reason not to use the RS232 serial port ?
Seems easier to implement on both ends...

> from a computer and step the motors
> accordingly. I want to also be able to pass configuration
> information that will allow the fine tuning of the motor operation.
>
> Forgive the rather silly question ... just wanted to make
> sure that I have read things right so far.

Well, *so* far, no major problem :-)

Regards
Jan-Erik.

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