Re: Minimal write-only slave PCI board?

IIRC, the metra-byte boards were just an address decoder and
an 8255. If you want the PCI equivalent, replace the address decoder
with a PLX 9052 and you've essentially got the same card. Your software
will have to deal with the address being assigned by the PCI BIOS instead
of dip switches, but other than that you've got essentially the same thing.

A google search on TTL I/O will find numerous similar cards still
being manufactured.

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Mark Sokos
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and no talent bum musician


<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >I'd like to make a PCB for a minimal, write-only slave PCI
> >board, just to output some data.
> >....[snip]....
>
> It's ISA, not PCI, but several years ago I bought a dozen "Metra-Byte"
> 24-bit fairly-generic I/O boards for, IIRC, about $25 each.
>
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