Date   : Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:49:07 -0000
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: Hardware questions

>>On a related note, do any of the techier electronics gurus here know of a
>>(cheap) simple USB device that would give high speed (~ 2Mhz) access to a
>>range of bidirectional i/o lines using API/DLL calls from Windows?
>
> That's a bit vague, but you may want to look here :
>
> http://www.vinculum.com/prd_vdip1.html

The VNC1L is a USB host, and is the opposite of what he's looking for. Try 
this:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/UM245R.htm

or

http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/DAQ.htm#DLP-245PL-G

or one of it's associated eval boards based around the FT245, depending on 
exactly what you want to do at the other end.

Mark.