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{{notability, Products, date=February 2014 ''PC Weasel 2000'' was a line of graphics cards designed by Middle Digital Incorporated (Herb Peyerl and Jonathan Levine) which output to a serial port instead of a
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. This allows
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s using PC hardware with conventional
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es or operating systems lacking serial capability to be administered remotely. The product was introduced in 1999 and began shipping January 20, 2000.
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and
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models are available. The PC Weasel is also connected to a
PS/2 The Personal System/2 or PS/2 is IBM's second generation of personal computers. Released in 1987, it officially replaced the IBM PC, XT, AT, and PC Convertible in IBM's lineup. Many of the PS/2's innovations, such as the 16550 UART (serial po ...
-compatible keyboard port and effectively emulates a keyboard by converting characters obtained from the serial port to keyboard scancodes. The card may also be connected to the reset pins of the motherboard and reboot the machine on command. The PC Weasel is an
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product. Every purchaser of the board is granted a license for the card's onboard microcontroller. The
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, stored in
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, is modifiable using a gcc-based toolchain.


See also

* Lights out management (LOM) * Network Console on Acid (NCA) * coreboot


External links


PC Weasel 2000
web site at
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release announcement at
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Graphics cards System administration Out-of-band management