I want to communicate between a MKV system with HMI without using Arcnet. The Mark V (C core) has 8 bit address and the ethernet 48 bit address. How can I replace Arcnet (8 bit with dip switch) with ethernet 48 bit and communicate with MKV without replacing any hardware parts but only changing software?

 

Rumor has it there's a prototype Ethernet-to-ARCnet conversion card being developed by Lanova using a Dupa-Juda chip. This chip requires 4.31 carats of unobtainiun in a hermetically-sealed reactor vessel charged with thermoionic diodes. By reversing the diodes with a twin-axial Monsterb cable of 313.4 meters, the card can be hacked to be an ARCnet-to-Ethernet conversion card.

It's believed the Dupa-Juda chip is a top-secret new product of Moter0la, being manufactured in an underice facility in the Antarctic. The previously largest known mass of unobtainium ever brought back from the moon was only .56 carats, so it's thought that a recent meteor shower was the source of the 4.31 carat chunk. The twin-axial Monsterb cable can only have bends with a maximum radius of 1.65 km. Fortunately, there are lots of thermoionic diodes available at any chemical plant or refinery (they're commonly used in flame rods, which, reportedly, don't have a long service life, but the diodes can be recycled). The reactor vessel must be heated to 1519 degrees Kelvin, and to use it in a PC a very large adsorption chiller (4100 long tonnes) must be used to cool the heat source.

There's only a 14-minute window when the Dupa-Juda chips can be passed through a 1.25 cm hole in the ice, and then only if there's no lunar radiation.

So, it looks like your chances of using an Ethernet card to communicate with a Mark V, regardless of the number of bits and bytes, are somewhere between slim and none.

Or, you could re-write all the software on the Mark V cards using Turbo PLM-86 with an enhanced reverse compiler and a Keytronics 88-key keyboard with 3 GB of DDR RAM (running at a front-side bus speed of 333 MHz). But, you'd still need to develop a RJ-45 to twin-axial cable connector, *and* a twin-axial to coaxial cable connector because the only cable which has the right capacitance-per-foot rating is the Monsterb cable. And with gold prices over USD$1000.00 per ounce, the cable will cost more than USD$0.13 per mm.

Let us know which route you try to implement and if you are successful. A lot of other Mark V owners will want to use their HMIs running WinCCC to control their Mark Vs.

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I heard through sources from low places that the Lanova conversion has been completed on a fully operational Mark V simulator located at the Scunkworks facility in Roswell.

 

This is indeed quite good news! any one should be very happy!

I wonder where they found more unobtainium. That stuff is really hard to get, virtually impossible I'm told.