Triggering Magstim Rapid with a PCMCIA card

[EJ Nikelski]

Hi all,

    I have just inherited a Magstim Rapid that I will be triggering with 
E-Prime. Problem is that I'll be running E-Prime from a relatively new 
laptap that has neither serial nor parallel ports. I do, however, have 
USB, and PCMCIA.

    I've been following discussions on this list and note that most 
people seem to use the parallel port to send a TTL trigger pulse. So, I 
could buy a PCMCIA parallel port card and try to use that. Does anyone 
have any experience with this?

    Alternatively, the previous owner used a National Instruments 
DAQCard-DIO-24 PCMCIA card, which provides 24 TTL-capable I/O lines, 
however, I'm not sure how compatible this card is with E-Prime. National 
Instruments appears to sell LabView, and so that's really all they 
recommend. I suppose the greatest advantage of this option is that it 
provides me with lots of input and output channels (when compared to 
using a parallel port). Does anyone have any experience using this NI 
DAQ card (or any other) with E-Prime? Any recommendations would be 
appreciated.

Cheers,

-Jim



-- 
Jim Nikelski, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
McGill University