At 06:41 PM 6/23/03 -0400, Bob wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>The FTDI RS232 chip is your friend here.
>
>Bob Ammerman
>RAm System

and David Van Horn also:

>Yes, that's what I'm doing  www.mobilecommand.net
>I have a 6 pin interface that carries two TTL handshake lines, and two TTL
data lines, 5V power and >ground to an interface card.

>If I plug in the 232 card, then it's a max chip, four caps and a connector.

>If I plug in the USB card, then there's a bit more stuff on the card, but
it looks the same to me.  >One difference, the USB card is powered from the
host over the usb cable, so it doesn't eat my >batteries.

>The FTDI drivers create a virtual com port, and work quite well.


Thanks! It looks good from here.  The issues of Windows drivers seems to be
solved now.  I wasn't sure in the past just how it all worked out.  I'll
order parts and demo boards tomorrow and get started.

Tom M.

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