On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> Geoff Blake wrote:
>
> > However, I do have problems with a USB port - none of the PC's here,
> > except the laptop have a USB port - and as somebody else said, it is not
> > viable (cost wise) to use a new PC for radio. I would much rather put
> > together an old 486 with a USCC card and hide it in a corner.
>
> So do that - there are plenty of ISA USCC designs already available.
> There is however no USB design available right now.
>
> Also, if your 486 has PCI slots, you _might_ be able to put
> an USB interface card into it, they're already quite cheap.
> However, my 486 PCI board has serious troubles with PCI
> bus masters (100MB ethernet cards), so that might
> not really work reliably.
>
> Tom
Tom,
The point I was trying to make was - that if somebody wanted a
multi(radio)port TNC with a 10MHz ethernet port, why not use a
486 with one or more USCC card - probable total cost of �50.00
at the most plus the cost of the USCC card(s). Much cheaper
than just one of the chips mentioned here previously!
Geoff
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