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- From: mahadeva@ROSARITA.ENGR.UCDAVIS.EDU (Vim Mahadevan)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr
- Subject: data acquisition using laptop computers
- Message-ID: <9209082232.AA24858@rosarita.engr.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 22:31:49 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- I am interested in adapting some lab equipment so that it can be used in
- the field. The system consists of some sensing devices connected to an
- IBM 8088 which does some calculations and spits out meaningful info.
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- My question: what would be a good low priced, reliable laptop which could
- be used for the data acquisition? As you can tell, sampling speed is not
- a high priority. The current system samples only at about 4 Khz and it works
- just fine. From what I have read, most laptops cannot have an i/o card
- added. But there is some way you can add a card by attaching some sort
- of jumper device. Would like to hear from people using laptops, preferably
- ibm, for data sampling, field measurements, etc.
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- This system will be marketed if it proves to work correctly. This leads to
- my second query: anyone know anything about how I could approach a company
- such as IBM and ask them to donate equipment to the company for development?
- I heard that there arre cases where IBM will donate a computer or other
- hardware to a fledgling company in exchange for a guarantee of a contract
- if the product winds up in the marketplace.
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- Vim
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