Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!groucho!davis From: davis@groucho.ucar.edu (Glenn P. Davis) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: cheap microcontroller systems Keywords: small cheap not-so-fast Message-ID: <9536@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 19:28:20 GMT Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Distribution: na Organization: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Lines: 16 For an experimental heating control system I wish to gather temperatures from 5 or so locations and be able to do say 5 or so 24 volt ~50ma contact closures. System also needs Time of Day clock, RS232 or 422 serial interface and some contact closure inputs. Product needs some high level programming support, like FORTH or (arg) a BASIC interpreter or? Any suggestions as to vendors that have board level components to do this sort of thing? Glenn P. Davis UCAR / Unidata PO Box 3000 3300 Mitchell Lane, Suite 170 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 497 8643