Not neccacary a PC, a little microcontroller would do as well many of our customers use somthing else then a PC.

on a sidenote the MOP displays cannot be hooked up directly to a PC since they are parallel displays and thus require a bunch of IO lines to drive them something a PC can't provide, our ...

Ray wrote:No that won't be possible you always need something that tells the display what to display.

Ah, i see. So i can only use it in conjunction with a PC?

i was wondering if anyone could help with a (hopefully) simple query.
I was looking through the vast array of displays on the website for a 4 line display and came across model no MOP-AL204A-BBTR I was wondering, is it possible to configure/program this display, then use as a standalone unit that ...