[plug] display

[David Bastow]

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Andrew McMeikan wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> <snip>
> > > better way (ie. games port has power out, but does it have 3 outgoing TTL
> > > lines?)
> > USB ports are powered.
> 
> and probably impracticle for this use. 
> 
> > I presume on that machine you don't care much for the speaker: you could 
> > connect that output to a display and play sounds all the time it's up.
> 
> I could be wrong but I think the speaker only has 2 lines, a gate and
> signal line.
> 
> I have realized where a good place would be.  The keyboard, handy 5volts
> and three spare lines Caps-lock, num lock and scroll lock :)
> 
> I don't suppose it should be too hard to find sample code for toggling
> these lines, just likely to be slower to display that otherwise.
> 

There is a program (in the deb distribution anyway) for doing exactly this
- someone with a better memory than I can fill you in on the name I am
sure, but I recall fiddling with it at one stage - perhaps you could keep
the leds circulating as long as the thing stayed up?


> 	cya,	Andrew...
> 
> > If you need power, there's an unused CPU fan connector on many M/Bs or you 
> > can tap into the wiring with an a appropriate adaptor or maybe connect to 
> > a spare floppy power connector.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers
> > John Summerfield
> > http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
> > Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
> > 
> 
>