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- From: wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Parallel port switch box
- Message-ID: <wfaust.08g2@venus.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 17:29:30 GMT
- References: <l9ofmtINNaqg@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <64782@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <64782@cup.portal.com> Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com writes:
-
- >You can **NOT** add a parallel port switch box to your DCTV, even though the
- >manual itself suggests it. It SEVERELY degrades the quality of all
- >video digitizations.
-
- There is an electronic switch box available specialy for these
- cases. It's called the "arXon switchbox". This switchbox can also
- be controlled by software (you can connect a control cable to
- your mouse port and still use that mouse port).
-
- The arXon switchbox is specialy designed for speed and does not
- use the "normal" chips as used by most electronic switch boxes...
-
- I also do support this box in my printer drivers, so here a part
- of my readme file:
-
- "The driver supports the arXon parallel switch box. The arXon
- switch box is an external 1 to 3 centronics switch controlable by
- software. You can ask the driver to automaticly switch to a
- wanted port for printing and switch back to the previously used
- port after printing. This enables you to use a scanner, digitizer
- and printer from your Amigas centronics port without switching
- between the devices "by hand". Specify the wanted printer port in
- "sbox_printer" and the default port (which should be set up after
- printing) in "sbox_active". If you specify 0 (default) as the
- port, no switching will take place.
-
- Note: "sbox_active" MUST be specified before using the driver in
- order to enable the "sbox_printer" command. This is because
- "sbox_active" is used to determine weather a switch box is
- installed or not. Information about the switch box can be
- obtained from:
-
- arXon GmbH
- Assenheimer Str. 17
- D-W-6000 Frankfurt
- Germany
- Tel: (++49)-69-7896891
- Fax: (++49)-69-7896878
-
- "
-
- Hmm.... price... don't know the price... but should be arround
- $120.
-
- >-Fred
-
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- Wolf Faust wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org (<-NEW!!)
- Germany: cbmehq!venus!wfaust@cbmvax.commodore.com
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