Re: PC based measurements

From: Indroneel Ganguly (kundol30_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:53:01 +0200

<mankind@work.com> wrote in message
news:7plhf09e84qpvfj69g0fuaf8ubhdb6ufkm@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:14:09 +0200, Dr Engelbert Buxbaum
<engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> Look for "io.dll" in google, it is a free 'dll' file from which you can
call routines
> to access the Parallel Port. With some tricky programming it works in all
versions
> of Windows.
> I have just purchased PureBasic (59 Euros) which works in windows, creates
full 32 bit
> applications, has a wysiwyg interface generator so you can create nice
standard
> 'Windows' in minutes, and this connects to the Parallel Port via "io.dll"
easily.
> I am a novice programmer, only learning enough to get done what I need,
and I
> created a simple application that drove my P.Port interface in the first
couple of days.
> Regards, KT
>

Thanks KT for the io.dll . I will try PureBasic in the coming days.
It looks like a neat and affordable tool.
Regards

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