RE: servos

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote:

> From: David Howland <dhowland@...
>
> Survey. Would you buy a blank ide card for under $50, if you could buy the components for another $35 and put together 3 quadature inputs and 3 8 bit ports whcih may be configured for inputs or outputs? Would you buy it, mostly for the quadature inputs, or the higher speed digital data? Does anyone know what 3 quadature inputs is priced like on any off the shelf PC card?
>

David
I answer to your survey - I would prefer an ISA card supporting 5 quadature
inputs as a minimum - three for the X,Y & Z axis, a fourth for a rotary axis,
and the last one for a hand wheel input. An option to expand to eight inputs to
work with a hexapod type machine might be nice. As new mother boards are
produced with fewer ISA slots, a need to cram more IO onto a single board
becomes an important issue.

Regards, Paul.