Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-14 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > What is BASIC Stamp and what is PIC ? very nice small devices that are a full CPU with I/Os, and in the case of basic stamp, a basic interpreter built in. Basic Stamp is popular for many home robotics apps. ron __

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-14 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:56, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > I still think a POST card with a Basic Stamp on it might be the > > best bet. > > Any particular reason to specifically choose a BASIC Stamp rather > than e.g. a PIC? > What is BASIC Stamp and what is PIC ? Ollie > Has all email to/from th

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-14 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:53:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > > > Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is? > > > > No > > > > > Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were? >

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:53:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is? > > No > > > Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were? > > every model I've had with a 3V pci bus. Aha, a 5V PCI

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-14 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is? No > Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were? every model I've had with a 3V pci bus. > I figure why not add a few neat features to it as well, since they > were considering making la

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-13 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:00AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal > > board? (dual voltage) > > you have to make sure that it won't keep a machine from turning on. > I have 5V post ca

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bari Ari wrote: > Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > > actually, a very handy thing would be a post card with a serial port ... > > > With a serial port for output? yeah. A BASIC Stamp ought to be able to do the deed. ron ___ Linuxbi

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-13 Thread Bari Ari
Ronald G. Minnich wrote: actually, a very handy thing would be a post card with a serial port ... With a serial port for output? -Bari ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
actually, a very handy thing would be a post card with a serial port ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal > board? (dual voltage) you have to make sure that it won't keep a machine from turning on. I have 5V post cards that when put in some mainboards won't allow them to power up. > I've s

Re: POST cards [was: speaker beeper]

2005-01-13 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:11:32PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I keep having problems with not having a 5V 32bit PCI slot or an > ISA slot... What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal board? (dual voltage) I will probably be designing one for a customer later this spri