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Re: Advanced Digital Logic

Most serial cards I have (unless they have a DB-9 or DB-25 connector
on the card's backplane) have a 10-pin IDC connector (two rows of 5) you
plug a ribbon cable into, the ribbon cable connects the DB connector to
the IO card - I doubt having to even custom-wire, given the
specifications, a connector like this will stop any of us from getting a
wearable going!  (I'll help write a HowTo if needed, but I've taught
folks who can barely solder to make these <G>)

  Someone who's good at this could make 'em for those who don't solder
well, even.  (I'll trade soldering for metalworking, if someone has
metalworking tools, happily!)

  For the VGA port, just use short wires (VERY likely to be easy to
arrange in a Wearable!)  I don't even think coax is needed...

  Mark Willis
  

Omar Jenkins wrote:
> 
> I got a catalog from ADL listing all the PC104 stuff they sell along with
> the power requiremtns and tons of other specs along with images of all the
> products.  I noticed that none of the PC104 cards have built in
> COM/LPT/VGA ports in the sense that instead of a 9 pin serial port, you
> have to hook wires up to a grid of pins, and wire it that way.  Same
> with the printer and video ports.  Would this be much of a problems to
> fix.  I haven't had much experience with trying to build this sort of
> interface.
> 
> {Omar Jenkins class of 1998     |"The more you study, the more you know,  }
> {SystemAdministrator & WebMaster| the more you know, the more you forget, }
> {Montgomery Blair High School   | the more you forget, the less you know."}
> {<>            |           ??So Why Study??              }

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