Size mainly.. I think I'm going to look into the suggest which Adam Davis made about scenix with the modem virtual peripheral.. this should make it even smaller I would think which serves my purposes more so than the PCMCIA, though the commodity nature of the PCMCIA modem might make it more appealing.. Russell C. Hay Vservers, LLC Rhay@vservers.com http://www.vservers.com -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Harold Hallikainen Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 1:21 PM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: PCMCIA and PIC Any particular reason to use PCMCIA instead of ISA? ISA is pretty easy and the modems are cheaper. Harold Harold Hallikainen harold@hallikainen.com Hallikainen & Friends, Inc. See the FCC Rules at http://hallikainen.com/FccRules and comments filed in LPFM proceeding at http://hallikainen.com/lpfm On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:18:15 -0700 Russell Hay writes: >I am rather new to the PIC microprocessor and I have a project which I >am >working on which requires communication over a phone line. The >thought that >I had would be to use a PCMCIA modem to communicate over the phone >line >(very low baud rate for obvious reasons) Anyway, I have been unable >to find >any online documentation of PCMCIA communications. The only thing I >found >were a postings back in '97 on this list talking about interfacing, >but >nothing concrete. I've been referred to pc-card.com which requires a >bit of >money to get any kind of real information on the card. The bit of >money is >more than I care to spend on Information. If someone has any links or >maybe >some information about PCMCIA communication, this would help me out a >lot. >Thank you in advanced > >Russell > > >Russell C. Hay >Vservers, LLC >Rhay@vservers.com >http://www.vservers.com ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.