Owner's manual

To Our Customers
Preface
3
You will use several procedures frequently in the tutorial chapters of this
manual. You may want to memorize the steps or have a reference copy of
the following procedures:
Reading Data From Your ASCII Device
Writing Data To Your ASCII Device
Setting Bits in Initialization Words
You can use an ASCII I/O module to input data to the processor from a
data source such as a bar code reader, output messages from the processor
to a display device, or bidirectionally exchange messages and/or data
between an intelligent data terminal and the processor. Typical examples
are as follows:
Devices
Type of
Device Applications
Bar code readers Input Part recognition, sorting, inventory control
Keypads Input Enter values, change data
Dotmatrix scrolling
displays, terminals, or
printers
Output Display warnings or diagnostic messages,
print production reports
Intelligent data
terminals
Input/Output Enter values, change data, monitor or
troubleshoot a process
Computers Input/Output Exchange data files
Typical Applications