Graffiti and General Zoomer Questions..

Nickels, Bob (RNickels@P16.IL50.micro.honeywell.com)
Mon, 27 Nov 95 09:32:00 CST

>2) Does anyone know of way to utilize the IR port on the Zoomer for more than
>just Zoomer - Zoomer transfers? Does a PC serial to IR port dohickey exist?
>If not, is there any interest in hacking together some hardware/software to
>do this?

I want this too! I've played around with a 40Khz Radio Shack IR detector and
just get garbage, even though I get good data on the direct RS-232
connection. So I suspect the IR modulation frequency is different than the
40Khz used for TVs and VCRs. I saw one mention of 100KHz...but don't have
any data to support this.

Bottom line: Getting connectivity to a PC via the IR port is going to be
easy once the technical parameters of the port (IR modulation freq., etc) are
known. It is straight serial data, just shoved out a different hole.

I've made several inquiries on this list for help, especially someone who has
a technical manual or knows where to get one. No reponse, but maybe this
will be my lucky day...

Bob Nickels
rnickels@p16.il50.micro.honeywell.com