OT: A call to arms (sort of) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Jul 1999

take a look below, plz
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Allison J Parent &lt;allisonp(a)world.std.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: OT: A call to arms (sort of)
...
 <at all and will rely on USB, SCSI, and the various
parallel port protocols
<to do "practical" I/O.  That will be very limiting.  I don't know what
folk
...

If I had to rely on those I'd be cooked.
<will do in cases where they have measurements, telememtry, process control
<tasks, or whatever to do.  The PC has never been particularly well suited
<for such tasks, since there were such meager offerings in the way of genera
...
 <purpose I/O.
I think you need to hit the catalogs.  GPIB and IO cards for process control
...
 are quite common.  I know I run a bank of ovens with a
PC (AD and GP-io
card, DOS even) and a test fixture for resistive elements using GPIB and
Keithley instruments. 