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#462318 - 10/03/05 04:28 AM Re:External VFD (vacuum flourescent display) to US [Re: Weltmeister]
larry98765 Registered: 09/30/05 Posts: 7	Will do burtman. I'm digging into the Cocoa tutorials and BlueCabbie site as we speak. In the meantime, if anyone knows of a way to use UNIX to direct output to an external USB VFD or LCD display, that would be ideal. Thanks all for your help on this. Ciao.
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#462319 - 07/11/06 03:58 PM External VFD (vacuum flourescent display) to USB [Re: Weltmeister]
burtman Registered: 02/05/05 Posts: 176	If anybody is still interested in this, I thought that I would mention that I have an USB Mx2 VFD display working on my G3 400 B&W, though under linux using LCDproc. _________________________ -- Burt I break stuff.
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#462320 - 09/23/06 02:43 PM Re: External VFD (vacuum flourescent display) to USB [Re: Weltmeister]
larry98765 Registered: 09/30/05 Posts: 7	Hi Burtman, I'm still very much interested in this. How did you go about it? The more details, the better. Thanks
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#462321 - 11/25/06 08:42 AM Re: External VFD (vacuum flourescent display) to USB [Re: Weltmeister]
burtman Registered: 02/05/05 Posts: 176	The short version is I installed Gentoo Linux on my G3 and then installed LCDproc. The long version is that it takes bloody ages to compile stuff on my old Mac! _________________________ -- Burt I break stuff.
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#462322 - 11/25/06 01:05 PM Re: External VFD (vacuum flourescent display) to USB [Re: Weltmeister]
Waragainstsleep Registered: 02/13/05 Posts: 1723	Yeah, compiling stuff takes ages. Bummer.
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#462323 - 11/29/06 05:08 AM Re: External VFD (vacuum flourescent display) to USB [Re: Weltmeister]
TCPMeta MacModder Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 1797 Loc: Florida, USA	I had a VFD display on my PC once but after I wired it up and tryed it in winamp it blew. Come to find out it was a cheapo that I over paid for off of ebay that blow out easily. A friend of mine has a 2x20 VFD dsplay on his system. I'll ask what model he has. I know the model he uses come in diffrent text columes and sizes. _________________________ To live is to let die
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