From: lonachon@mehta.anu.edu.au (andrew longhorn )
Subject: Re: Sci-VW: Re: INFO: Sources for PGs in Europe
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 08:52:35 EST



The PG is not related to video standards, it is a stand-alone system
that determines for itself what information to send out its cable.

The PG can be interfaced to any computer with a serial/parallel port
(using the parallel port requires a simpler interface but the computer
is required to "drive" the glove by sending pulses whereas a serial
interface such as the HC11 one drives the glove and talks to the
computer as a mediator.

I am in OZ and we are on PAL (the video-signal standard, not the
dog-food) and I got my gloves from the states. I rang the repairs
division here and apparently the only difference between the states
ones and the OZ ones are a "smoothed" or "buffered" output I gather.
(They just said a cap or something is connected across the signal).

With this news, all you need to do now is contact someone in the US
and get them to send you a glove or 2.

Hope that helps,
Andrew Longhorn

lonachon@mehta.anu.edu.au.