David Griffith wrote:
Does anyone here done something like sending ASCII to a microcontroller
which then emits morse code? I'm tinkering around with old telegraph
sounders.


Well that is basically how any CW radio software works David, Most
digital programs (used for PSK, Olivia, RTTY and such now days) such as
Digipan, Hamscope, DM-780 (Part of the Ham Radio Delux package) all
these do CW..

Now with these programs you are sending from the keyboard so you are
sending "Key-Code" not ASCII to the CPU. but if you re-direct the input
to an RS-232 port using the DOS MODE command,,,, you can then send ASCII
to the com-port selected for this job and the computer will send .- ...
-.-. .. ..