From: jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Brain)
Subject: TECH: PowerGlove AGE emulation info
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 04:29:00 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


This is Jim Brain again, here to tell you I have received dozens of replies
from glove people. I am not on the mailing list, so everyone will have to keep
me up to date(I do not have the time to read all the messages from the
mail list). I have had a few requests for the product, which I will respond to
by saying that we have no final products as of yet, just two working prototypes and one that I am building.  As for the price, we we will build them and then
see.  I have also received many questions concerning the commands for the
box SIGARCH and I are building.  I will ask a few questions now:

1:	Does anyone want to know all the AGE commands?

2:	Does anyone need to know the commands from Ron Minelli's box?


OK, now a few answers.

I have received a lot of responses wanting a serial interface.  only one person
I know of wanted a parallel interface, so I will probably make it serial with
an option for parallel.

This box will emulate both Ron's and AGE's command set.  I like the AGE
command set better, but the AGE box has a few bugs that I have gotten rid
of.

Our box will end out at least 80 packets of info a second, That is with only
polling enabled in the box code.  We are going to an interrupt type serial
routine to put data out of the box, but that is currently under construction.

That should speed the box considerably.

Any other comments?

Jim Brain

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