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    Re: Use PC's IR port instead of IR tower? —Reimer Mellin
   The basic difference between PCs/PalmPilots/WinCE IR ports and the RCX is a different physical transmission/modulation protocol. In the PC etc case the commonly used format is described by the IrDa standard (www.irda.org) where seperate IR pulses (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: Use PC's IR port instead of IR tower? —Phil Ashby
   In theory it's possible, provided that: [1] The optical frequency matches adequately (anyone know?) [2] 38400 Hz is close enough to the RCX/Scout modulation frequency to get past any bandpass filtering.. [3] The PC software can accurately turn IR (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 

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