Hardware Input/Output

• Ports

  • IR, RF
  • Joystick
  • Keyboard
  • PCMCIA
  • Parallel, IDE or ATA
  • Serial, USB
  • Video Adapters

• Peripherals

  • Visual: Displays / Cameras / Printers
  • Audio: Modems / Speech
  • Mechanical: Servos / Mouse
  • Magnetic Card Readers / Barcodes

• Busses

  • I2C
  • USB
  • X10

• Networks OSI 3 - Network layer

  • TCP/IP (OSI layers 3 and 4)
  • Packet Radio
  • EDI
  • Telephone / pagers

• Interfacing

  • Logic Levels - OSI 1 - Physical Layer
  • Communication Standards - OSI 2 - Data Link layer
  • Timing
  • Sensors
  • to people

see also:

• Interfacing the PC Craig Peacock's superb guide to all things serial and parallel.
• http://margo.student.utwente.nl/stefan/ has info on various ports (parallel, serial, keyboard, etc.)
• The comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.* FAQ (posted on news.answers and comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc, available via ftp from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc) contains connector/bus pinouts and other useful information.
• http://www.hut.fi/~then/electronics/computer.html#pchardware <L:I> IBM, Technical Reference, Personal Computer AT, 1984
• "The IBM Personal Computer, from the Inside Out" by Sargent and Shoemaker (published by Addison-Wesley) provides a lot of information about interfacing an IBM type PC to various things.
• Talking to a floppy control from NC4000:
  ftp://ftp.hal.com/pub/elvey/floppy.txt
• Using a non-DOS machine to talk to a DOS disk
  ftp://ftp.hal.com/pub/elvey/disk.txt
• http://www-techdoc.intel.com and www.national.com Look up the datasheets for their super-IO parts, which have Paralell Port, Serial Port, RTC, Floppy Controller, all in one chip.
• http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ih/doc/adc_dac/
• 16- and 32-bit DLLs for port I/O may be found at: http://www.lvr.com
• WINio.Dll and WIN32io for Windows 95 http://www.ping.be/~ping0751
• Accessing PC I/O ports in Windows http://www.rain.org/~pra
• EDE300 Application Note #1: Device Control via the PC http://www.netins.net/showcase/elab In the 'Integrated Circuits' section under 'EDE300'
• The Analog Devices AD9850 is a CMOS, 125 MHz complete direct digital synthesiser on a single chip. It uses a single 5 V or 3.3 V supply, and with a 125 MHz clock, can generate a low-distortion sine wave or a square wave, from under 1 Hz up to about 60 MHz, with a tuning resolution of 0.0291 Hz. Full data on the device is available from ADI's web site: http://www.analog.com