Hi,

Does anyone have any experience reusing old 8250 serial cards? They're
real cheap - if costing anything at all - at second hand pc-shops.

Maybe (probably) you'd have to cut some traces on the board. That
shouldn't be much of a problem, because the 8250 boards are mostly oldies,
so they're often not multi(>2)layered.

Another option would be to plug your own pcb with a PIC into the uart's
socket.

I haven't tried any of this myself yet, but I'd love to hear if there are
people who have had good experiences with hardware hacks like this.

Cheers,


Joost

P.S. I know this is not a PIC-proper subject and -taken strictly- should
have gone into comp.hardware.homebuilt or some other newsgroup like that
one. But, as the PIC is such a fine controller for hobbyists and starters
because of the low cost and availability of development tools, I hope that
there is some relevance in it and that I might be excused. If not, I shall
promise not to post again to this list for 19 months. ;-)