[ale] APC UPS at Sams :P (1100VA for $118)

[Hogg, Russell E]

Since the UPS subject line is still hanging around.



A 10 dollar 500va UPS on slickdeals today.  
500va is pretty wimpy though.




http://slickdeals.net/#p3244




 
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Fowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:29 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] APC UPS at Sams :P (1100VA for $118)


I have a small collection of multi-port i/o boards


On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:08:24AM -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2003 07:19 am, CN wrote:
> 
> > *ix-es are not noted for being realtime machines (with the exception of the
> > Masscomp Real-Time Unix some years ago), but if timing isn't too critical,
> > Linux ought to be able to read and write to a multiport card quite easily.
> > If you only can find one in a reasonably human price range. An Accelport
> > board is $1300 to watch/latch two bytes - 16 i/o ports! There's got to be
> > something better/cheaper.
> 
> There are such things, but since they can't sell 'em by the millions, they 
> aren't advertised much and aren't stocked in computer stores.
> 
> See, for example, http://www.activewireinc.com for a 16-bit PIO USB card with 
> Linux drivers, $59,
> or http://www.prairiedigital.com/ for a variety of boards in the $100 -- $300 
> range. 
> 
> About the only place such companies can afford to advertise is Nuts & Volts 
> magazine. http://nutsvolts.com
> 
> Irv
> 
> 
> 
> 
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