[ale] linux friendly cheep hardware...

[Christopher R. Curzio]

I think he was referring to a flatscreen LCD display. In any case, your
reference to Matrix Orbital's website has sparked a renewed interest in
the LCDs you're talking about. 

I have one that I bought on eBay last year, and I believe it's a 40x2 LCD
display. It says 8v on the back, and has a 14 pin plug on the reverse.
There are 5 chips on the back. 4 of them say "HD44100H" and the fifth says
"HD44780A00". I'm assuming these are Hitachi. 

Does anyone know how difficult it is to build both a power unit and serial
interface for this thing?

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Thus Spake "Jordi S. Bunster" <j.bunster at earthlink.net>:
13 Aug 2002 21:15:20 -0400


> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 19:59, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > hey, i was wanting an lcd but not an expensive one, something that
> > linux would like and be happy with, i was looking for a black and
> > white or monochrome lcd to run a normal run of the mill distro on but
> > without the gui interface, just console :) havent seen many around
> > other than the calculator kind. any suggestions? previous experiences?
> > 
> 
> Like the ones that Matrix Orbital sells? That kind of led?
> 
> I recently posted an OT in which I'm selling things. One of the things
> I'm selling, has one of this inside. One line with about 30 characters
> or so.
> 
>  -- Jsb
> 
> 
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