[whytheheckme]

I think that a PBASIC controller might work without an operator interface because you are using the data from the dashboard port AS an operator interface. You can use the SERIN command to assign each byte to a variable. You could then have a simple IF/THEN statement to check which packet it is, and then send bytes to an encoder to send a 16 bit binary number out of the 16 I/O ports. From the I/O ports, you could hook a CPLD to transate the encoded nibble into 7seg displays and the likes. Do you see any major flaws in my plan?

Thank you,

Jacob Komar