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- From: Curt.Miller@launchpad.unc.edu (Curt Miller)
- Subject: building comps. and RS-422?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.070539.5561@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Keywords: building, RS-422, motherboard
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- Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:05:39 GMT
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- I was wondering if anyone can point me to any good sources
- on info about building computers from scratch. Right now I am looking
- to put together a system with a turbo 8088, a floppy drive, a floppy
- controller, 640K, and an RS-422 interface. I am working to put together
- a slave drive unit for a Laird 1450 Character Generator. I've been told
- that that is all the hardware that the commercially produced slave
- drive has in it. It only has to receive data from the CG and run
- the driver software to accept the data and then spit the data
- out in the same order when called on to do so. I have no previous
- experience with building a PC so any advice will be of use to me.
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- I've seen lots of catalogs with motherboards, power supplies, and
- cases. I was wondering if anyone knows of good (inexpensive) sources
- for an RS-422 interface. I was also told that there might be devices
- that convert an RS-232 into an RS-422, is this true and might this
- be a better route to go????
-
- Please mail any replies since I don't read this newsgroup.
-
- UCSKJM@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU Kurt Miller
- UCSKJM@UWPLATT.BITNET University of Wisconsin Platteville
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