4 Jun
2007
4 Jun
'07
5:24 p.m.
On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Yes I've heard that, and it's no coincidence that the three or
four STD-bus cards that I've seen in my life happened to be motor
controllers. :-)
I really like the form factor of those cards...I wish they were
easier to come by; I'd love to build up a little STD-bus "hack
machine" around a Z80 or 6809.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Also true.
I'd bet, however, that the number of S-100 products
is twice that of Multibus and STD bus combined, even when taking
into account stuff like Multibus-based Cisco routers and related
stuff. I wonder why that is...is it just a matter of having been
developed sooner?
I don't have any experience from which to draw when trying to come
up with a number for the amount of S-100 product out there, but I
can say without hesitation that there is a metric buttload of STD-
bus stuff out there, but only in specific arenas. You can get an
STD-bus board (or boardset) to do pretty much anything you can
think of in industrial control/manufacturing robotics. It's a very
popular bus in that arena.