Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:16180 comp.protocols.ibm:155 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!mimsy!oddjob!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!bungia!com50!pai!pfh From: pfh@pai.UUCP (Peter Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: ARTIC Card Info Request Message-ID: <135@pai.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 88 02:35:19 GMT References: <561@dsachg1.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Prime Automation, Inc., Burnsville, MN Lines: 30 In article <561@dsachg1.UUCP>, zdb1526@dsachg1.UUCP (kelly pearce) writes: > We are considering using IBM's ARTIC card.... > Trouble is, IBM isn't at all sure if the > card will work in any other machine other than an true-blue IBM :-(.... You should be able to use a clone. I would try out a specific configuration before committing to it. I'm working on a project that uses two Artics per PC-AT "subsystem controller." The target machine is an IBM 7532 industrial PC, but we do all our development on a Hewlett-Packard Vectra AT-clone. We also tried (briefly) AT-clones by AST and Acer, and the Artics seemed happy enough in those machines. By the way, one of our Artics came from Allen-Bradley, which OEMs it under their own name. A-B happened to have 'em in stock. We don't use much IBM-supplied software on the Artic. Quadron Service Corp. (Santa Barbara, CA; 805-966-6424) sells packages called QCF and QMON that provide a C language interface to a multitasking monitor. We used their low-level I/O functions and our own protocol handlers to talk to the various devices in our subsystem (IBM robot, G&L programmable controller, IRI vision system, and a barcode reader). Hope this helps. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Peter Hill +1 612 894 0313 Prime Automation, Inc. ...{sun!tundra,ihnp4!umn-cs!hall,bungia}!pai!pfh