Analog Tech.
Bruce,
I had a talk with Marty Stein, the ADO product manager in Redwood City,
this afternoon. According to Marty, version 2.x of the ADO firmware and an
as-yet unreleased version of AVC Vista firmware will make possible an
RS-232 hookup between the two units to do what I was asking for. Now
that's a helluva switch — from "you need to buy Ethernet for the Vista and
Vista Disk and firmware for a total of $8,800.00" to "all you need is a
firmware upgrade and you can do it with the hardware you already have."
All depends on who you talk to, eh?
Pete
PS — Of course, the Vista firmware upgrade is vaporware. He won't comment
on a possible release date or even if anyone's actually working on it.