[Sussex] Digital IO card

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Tue Mar 8 14:42:46 UTC 2005


Brendan

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:17:01PM -0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> We have a system which is used in a Blood Transfusion lab. I want
> to add a digital IO card to a Fedora Core 3 system so that I can
> flash some alarm lights when the user needs to attend to an urgent
> request for blood. 
> 
> Has anyone recommendation for a simple digital IO card that has a
> Linux driver.

If all you are doing is driving a switch then I suggest you look
at using the parallel port [1].

Steve

[1]
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/page6.htm




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