Re: PC based measurements

From: Dr Engelbert Buxbaum (engelbert_buxbaum_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:14:09 +0200

Indroneel Ganguly wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> I am trying to use my PC to measure resistance, capacitance and inductance
> of the respective components.
> I would like to use the parallel or serial port to do it.
> Do I need to have a ADC circuit to do it ?

Try and google for the "parallel port faq" for how to interface circuits
with the printer port. An interesting alternative on a PC is the game
port, as it can measure resistance directly.

Note however that direct access to the pp is possible only with DOS
based operating systems, modern (?) Windozze versions require kernel
modules. So it is probably easiest to recycle an old 386 or 486 for that
type of experiments.

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