Re: Profile emulation on a PC or Mac

Hi John et al,

>There was someone trying to interface a Lisa to a PC
>http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~tom/cs23/final/
>Anyone know what happened to the project, or are there others who have done
>this?

The web page implies that Tom Stepleton is planning to finish the project "during the summer", but the last time I had email from him was April, so I imagine he was distracted with other things.

As suggested by the web page, Paul Capes and I successfully developed an ISA board and software to emulate a ProFile. Although we did not bring it to market, we both ran prototypes for quite a while and they worked just fine.

The page also states that I requested the information that I provided not be distributed; in fact I would be pleased to provide it to others, but ask that the software not be re-distributed without our permission. As far as I know, the reverse-engineered protocol and hardware design is still freely available on CompuServe. I was recently thinking of taking it off CIS and putting it on a web page to make it more accessible.

Although I believe the ISA version will still work, I would certainly applaud and assist an effort to make an easy to build version that used the parallel port.

James

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