Old 486 Board for ECU??

[Mike from West Australia]

At 04:22 PM 28/4/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Oops.  Spoke before I thought.  I've spent so much time trying to get 
>Windows to do what I want with a hard drive that I forgot it was an option 
>to disable it.  We have a couple of computers in our dyno rooms with floppy 
>drives that consistently corrupt floppy disks just because of the junk that 
>floats around in the air out there.  These same conditions exist under that 
>dash of a car, so that's my basis for saying that a floppy drive would 
>eventually fail (most likely when you're on a road trip in the middle of 
>Alaska with no computer store for 500 miles).

Floppy drives are so cheap you could have 4 in the same box if you
really wanted and have the BIOS go through each one...

Put he box in the boot by the way and just have a signal conditioner
near the engine etc.



Rgds


Mike Massen

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