Hi Jinx. I think www.epanorama.net has a section about doing stuff like
this. And IIRC Gord McComb's Robotics Handbook (I think that's what it's
called...subtitled something like 99 inexpensive projects) had something
about interfacing with a PC. The original version (that I have
somewhere) only deals with older PCs, but there is a new edition out
that may have more info.

Hope that helps,

Josh

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Jinx wrote:
>
> I'm trying to tidy up a couple of projects, and one thing that would
> help enormously is to get the circuitry inside the PC. Does anyone
> have links to or practical examples of how to get a board working
> in an EISA or PCI slot ? I've got a couple of 486's that are spare
> for this, more than likely I'd want to do it in DOS (under BASIC ?),
> although if it's easy (ha !!) to do with Win I can go that way. I've read
> up on the hardware and have some experience making plug-in boards
> on smaller machines (eg Commodore 64), but don't have a clue as
> yet about the PC s/w to do it. For example, how do you get the PC to
> recognise the board, assign an IRQ to it etc etc

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