Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an > > extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. I've got the > > National Semiconductor application sheets for the 8392(?) and plan on > > using one "cut in half": Half duplex, but split into seperate TX and RX > > lines. I'm also looking at a scaleable way to go up or down in speed, > > without dealing with async... A layer two device if you will. > > RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to > noise > :)
Noise shouldn't be an issue. It's going to be handling "clean" data. By cheap, I mean $5 a pop or so. I've got a few 3C503s that I feel like cutting into. I'm going to be bearing the financial end of this project of mine, so I'm going to save where I can. :-) -- Kris Kirby <k...@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
