Me a-gain, On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:23:53 -0500 (CDT) jethro at yaron.org wrote: > It is interesting. Writing a daemon to do that should be easy, if you know how > to access the card... heck, have a shellscript dump /dev/whatever into it. > > I like the idea of analog gauges showing RAM/swap/CPU status (: > > rings up another question: where do you find really cool gauges... Take a look at the equipment I *used* to help design & manufacture and leave that little issue to me :) http://www.atma-sphere.com/m60.htm Only issue, those round gauges bought new are big bucks... around $75.00 each. The cool part, is that they are the EXACT same part that the manufacturers made in the 1920's. I made sure of that. We'll need to try and get a lot off of the surplus market, or pull from used gear to suit the individual application. One good source is Fair Radio Spares catalog. Also, locally there are Ax-Man and Dexis... but it would be hard to get a useful quantity of matched parts from either. I'm actually quite psyched about this, who wants to jump in on it? Heh, I could even write a little firmware for a Microchip PIC uC and build a serial (USB?) version. The new PICs have on-chip 8/12bit DACs. Shiver. -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-