I figured that part out.. What I ment was what program or programming is
involved to shoot just the text you want to the VFD and which button on the
VFD issues what commands.
Don
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From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <
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Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: ISO RackMount Cases...
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:09:00PM -0700, Don Harrop wrote:
> > What does it take to make the VFD functional under linux?
>
> If it's one from Matrix Orbital, you connect it to a serial port.
>
> I'm working on homebrewing an LED dot-matrix display too. I
> found some 1x8-character matrix displays on ebay, and an 8051 board
> which I should be able to program to control them based on input
> from the serial port.
>
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