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Re: Migrating from IR tower/spirit.ocx to USB
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Date: 
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:34:23 GMT
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Why not just keep using your old serial tower?

-a

"Dave Hallowell" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:NEBBLJAEMKLDMPBNPBLHGELICHAA.dhall@hallsystems.com...
> Now that I have a 2.0 kit and have had some time to realize that
> the new USB tower uses a proprietary protocol I can see that
> rescuing all the code I've been writing in Visual Basic will be
> tougher than just redirecting the IO to a USB masquerading as a
> serial COM port.  I need to be able to talk to the USB device
> drivers for that new tower.  There must be others working on that
> (.or better yet having already worked it out.?..) .
> 
> I'll appreciate any insights or links with folks interested in
> making that transition work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave Hallowell
> 
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  Migrating from IR tower/spirit.ocx to USB
 
Now that I have a 2.0 kit and have had some time to realize that the new USB tower uses a proprietary protocol I can see that rescuing all the code I’ve been writing in Visual Basic will be tougher than just redirecting the IO to a USB masquerading (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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