> You mean a regular PC? How about a laptop? There is an accessory out > 

     A laptop would be last choice -- too expensive, can't put my sound
card and synergyzer card in it, etc. No, I want a regular 386 motherboard,
hardrive, keyboard, modem, etc., but don't think there's really room
for a regular monitor. I might use one of the lunchbox style cases, but
really that's bulky too.

> I wonder if there exists some sort of device that you could plug in
> between the engine (maybe the fuel injection) and the PC and then some
> software allowing you to monitor/analyze the engine. I know that --at
> least for the early fuel injected engines-- VW had a computer they used
> for diagnostics and which plugged right into some receptacle in the > 

    There is a setup like that, it's made for mechanics essentially, and
was reviewed in "Byte" awhile back. Software and A/D interfaces supposed
to hook up to most cars. Don't recall if that included VWs, but it was
about $500-600. If I had the spare change it'd be worth it, I guess, but
I don't. 8-)
    
Harmon Seaver 
hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu

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