» ‘Rugby’ MSF Receiver

The PC interface card receives the Rugby MSF time signal. The time is accurate to 1 second in 1,000,000. You can be confident that the time is always correct. The card can be set up to automatically correct your PC clock.

» Norcom Graphics Adapter

The Norcom Graphics Adapter (NGA) is a multi-channel super VGA card for the PC The card is designed to enable a number of colour monitors to be driven with different and independent displays from a single computer.
Generally due to memory and I/O limitations, it is not possible to fit more than one VGA or Super VGA card in a PC. However, the NGA card solves this problem through hardware design while maintaining full graphics standards software compatibility. The only alternative in multiple display application is to use a PC for each display plus the associated networking and communication overhead and costs.
The NGA is supplied with either 2 or 4 Super VGA channels per card and 512 KM or 1MB of video memory per channel. Individual board addressing allows up to 16 NGA cards to be fitted in one PC; assuming sufficient power and ISA or PCI slots are available. Display resolution of each channel may be individually set for standard VGA through to 1024 x 768 resolution.

» Programmable Communication Controller

The programmable Communication Controller (PCC) is an intelligent multichannel serial communication I/O card which allows 4, 8 or 16 serial devices to be interfaced to a single PC compatible computer.

The PCC controller card incorporates an INTEL/AMD 80C186 processor with 256/512 Kbytes of RAM controlling data transfer to and from the serial devices; thus reducing the workload on the host processor. All channels run concurrently at fully buffered rates up to 38.4 Kbps.

Norcom has developed application control software which is downloaded to the card at system power up. The software allows data to be buffered and accurately time tagged to 0.01 of a second. Drivers have been written for a wide range of devices, which will buffer, time tag, validate, decode and if necessary, reformat into a set of standard string.