Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:34:50 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199601311634.KAA07017@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199601310726.RAA18000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 31, 96 05:56:54 pm
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> Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk stands accused of saying: > > > > > I was thinking about tackling the problem myself by putting an 8751-class > > > microcontroller on a PC card and writing a quick'n'stupid bit of timer code > > > > Why not hang it off the parallel port? > > No reset line on the port 8) That IS something I had considered. Most of my machines sport a parallel port; all of them are of the variety where you connect a dual-row IDC connector and some ribbon cable with a DB25 on the end up to it (as opposed to being directly soldered to the back of the board). This means I _could_ design a daughtercard inside the machine that connected to the parallel port, the reset switch, and maybe fd power. It would be adequate. I'm just trolling to see if somebody has a solution I don't have to work so hard at :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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