Re: [time-nuts] Intro and Driver Request

[Jason T]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:34 PM, John Allen  wrote:
> FWIW, The Win 2000 driver will work on Win XP.

Digging into the SDK disk, I see there are Windows drivers there as
well as source code.  I was thinking they were on another disk.  I'd
still like to find that DOS driver but if it never turns up, I could
build a Win [98/NT/2K/XP] machine for the task.

A more modern PCI card would definitely be easier to deal with.  But
this one has the advantage of being here already and didn't cost
anything.  And I'm not trying to do anything serious with it - I just
want to "see it work."
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Re: [time-nuts] Intro and Driver Request

[Robert Watzlavick]

I used one of the BC620AT cards many years ago with a DOS system.  All 
we needed was time within a second so we used with a Bancomm-supplied 
DOS driver (I think) that replaced the system clock with IRIG-B based 
time instead of the PC clock.  It may have come with a regular driver 
but I can't remember.


You can get much newer PCI versions for around $100 on eBay unless 
you're dead set on the ISA bus.  The BC635 is the IRIG version and the 
BC637 is the GPS version.


-Bob

On 05/12/2016 07:26 PM, Jason T wrote:

Hello Time-Nuts - I've ended up here by way of the ham radio,
electronics and classic computing hobbies, which I'd bet is a common
trail to follow for time-standard collectors.  I don't have any exotic
equipment at the moment but I've run across GPS and rubidium-based
test equipment online and at hamfests without knowing much about them,
other than they looked cool and technical :)

Recently I came upon a Datum ISA card, the BC620at, along with the
627at kit, which is a Trimble "smart antenna" that attaches to the
card:

http://www.gigatest.net/datum/bc620at.pdf

Not that I need any more projects, but I may as well try to make it do
its thing; however I am lacking the necessary drivers for the ISA
card.  I found (and imaged) the one disk that came with it but that
turned out to be the Windows (98, NT, 2000) SDK.  I believe there
should be an MS-DOS driver as well.

Does anyone have or has anyone used one of these cards?  Any advice,
in addition to tips on the driver/software, is much appreciated.

Thanks much

-j



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Re: [time-nuts] Intro and Driver Request

[John Allen]

FWIW, The Win 2000 driver will work on Win XP.

John, K1AE

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From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Jason T
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:27 PM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Intro and Driver Request

Hello Time-Nuts - I've ended up here by way of the ham radio,
electronics and classic computing hobbies, which I'd bet is a common
trail to follow for time-standard collectors.  I don't have any exotic
equipment at the moment but I've run across GPS and rubidium-based
test equipment online and at hamfests without knowing much about them,
other than they looked cool and technical :)

Recently I came upon a Datum ISA card, the BC620at, along with the
627at kit, which is a Trimble "smart antenna" that attaches to the
card:

http://www.gigatest.net/datum/bc620at.pdf

Not that I need any more projects, but I may as well try to make it do
its thing; however I am lacking the necessary drivers for the ISA
card.  I found (and imaged) the one disk that came with it but that
turned out to be the Windows (98, NT, 2000) SDK.  I believe there
should be an MS-DOS driver as well.

Does anyone have or has anyone used one of these cards?  Any advice,
in addition to tips on the driver/software, is much appreciated.

Thanks much

-j

-- 
silent700.blogspot.com
Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area:
http://chiclassiccomp.org
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[time-nuts] Intro and Driver Request

[Jason T]

Hello Time-Nuts - I've ended up here by way of the ham radio,
electronics and classic computing hobbies, which I'd bet is a common
trail to follow for time-standard collectors.  I don't have any exotic
equipment at the moment but I've run across GPS and rubidium-based
test equipment online and at hamfests without knowing much about them,
other than they looked cool and technical :)

Recently I came upon a Datum ISA card, the BC620at, along with the
627at kit, which is a Trimble "smart antenna" that attaches to the
card:

http://www.gigatest.net/datum/bc620at.pdf

Not that I need any more projects, but I may as well try to make it do
its thing; however I am lacking the necessary drivers for the ISA
card.  I found (and imaged) the one disk that came with it but that
turned out to be the Windows (98, NT, 2000) SDK.  I believe there
should be an MS-DOS driver as well.

Does anyone have or has anyone used one of these cards?  Any advice,
in addition to tips on the driver/software, is much appreciated.

Thanks much

-j

-- 
silent700.blogspot.com
Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area:
http://chiclassiccomp.org
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