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Help with making parallel put work

Author:  turinghelp101 [ Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Help with making parallel put work

What is it you are trying to achieve?
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I have an isp due in 2 days and I have to make 2 seven segment displays. I have to enter a temperature in fahrenheit and it has to be converted into celcius. I have to program number -20 to 20 in celcius for them to be displayed on the 7 segment display
What is the problem you are having?
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After thoroughly looking into making a seven segment display I still have no idea what to do. I started to try somthing out and it is not working. It sais unable to find I/O device. I need to know what this means and what I have to include to make it work
Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
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researched everything I could find


Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
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Turing:


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for i : 0 .. 7
            parallelput (2 ** i)    %Set data bit i on the  parallel port
            put "Data bit ", i, "  or Pin ", i + 2, "has just been set"
        end for
        parallelput (97)




Please specify what version of Turing you are using
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4.1.1

Author:  Dreadnought [ Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with making parallel put work

turinghelp101 wrote:
It sais unable to find I/O device.


Do you have a parallel port on your machine? I don't know if you need drivers for a parallel port, but if so, are they installed?


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