hooking pc to a card embosser

[Chris Liechti]

dyoungblood at mindspring.com wrote in news:3cf4d84c.2524688 at 10.0.0.1:

> I'm hoping that you guys can help me with a project. I repair card
> embossers ( machines that emboss-punch raised letters- on credit cards
> and such). One of the ways that these machines can be controlled by is
> hooking it up to a dumb terminal. I want to make a program for my
> laptop that will simulate a dumb terminal and thereby give me full
> control of the machine. Hooking up to it this way gives me the ability
> to save layouts and change system settings, etc. The machine has setup
> options for the following terminals:
> 1) Sherwood 750-ST
> 2) QVT 101+
> 3) Esprit 6110+

dont know what these are :-) however you might find some manual on the net. 
tried google already? otherwise you could make up a y-cable and spy on the 
serial port.

> These use the serial port on the computer.

my module is here:
http://pyserial.sf.net

plug your device in and play a bit around with it - maybe you're lucky and 
its a simple protocol.

chris

> Do you have any suggestions on how I can simulate any of these
> terminals, the codes used and such? I am running Win98se on my laptop.
> The embosser is NBS Advantage 2000 M1.
> 
> I appreciate any help you can give me.
> 
> David Youngblood
> Eastern Data, Inc.
> david at edi1.com
> www.edi1.com
> 



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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>