
8 Motor drives
Many applications of microcomputers result in an out-
put to drive a motor. Without stopping to think about
this fact, it may not seem immediately obvious. After all,
word processors and databases seem totally divorced
from the world of industrial machine control. Yet mo-
tors of one sort or another are frequently essential in
both.
To take the use of a word processor, as a familiar exam-
ple.
No less than four separate motors are involved in
the process! The software to run the program is invari-
ably contained on disk (don't write in if yours is in ROM!),
whether it is a floppy or a hard disk. To access the appli-
cation progra