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Re: [ECS] Quad serial boards Daniel Dubay Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:12:53 -0400

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Reddy,

I didn't try the byterunner boards.  This reference was given to me
bysomeone else on the list.  I agree they look pretty good.

Dan Dubay

>>> "William Biggs" <william@qualityhunt.com> 09/16 8:53 PM >>>
Dan,

Have you tried the byterunner boards ?  They work OK ?

Their PCI board looked very attractive to me :

"The following card's serial are addressable to IRQs 3-15 and require
only 1
IRQ. The card is available with 16550 or 16750 UART chips. Settable to
COM1-COM99. Settable clock frequency to support fast data transfer
rates (up
to 921,600 bps). Card uses an octopus cable which plugs on the back and
fans
out to 4 DB25 serial connector cables (the cables are about 5 inches
long,
so you will probably need to plug a 25-pin male to 25-pin female
serial
cable on to the cables to extend the length.) 32-bit PCI-bus. Plug &
Play.
Card designed for use with DOS, Windows 95, 98 & NT 4.0. Drivers for
these
operating systems are included."

They use a PCI slot
They have up to **eight** serial ports, sharing the same IRQ, settable
to
COM1 - COM99!?!?.
Cost starts at $64 for 2 ports and $179 for 8 ports.

If three of us want to order as a group, the price for the 8 port drops
to
$129.75 each.

See http://www.byterunner.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?FILE=iocards.html 

At this rate I could hook up a **whole ** lot more serial devices....

Reddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Dubay <ddubay@umich.edu>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ECS] CallerID-Int-A


>Sorry this took me so long Carl.  I just purchased a board from:
> http://www.bb-elec.com/catalog/cards/cards.html 
>If you follow the instructions with the poard for setting the jumpers
>and then install new com ports in WIN95 and set the same
irq/addresses
>it should work.
>
>Another source is:
>http://www.byterunner.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?FILE=iocards.html 
>
>Good Luck!
>
>Dan Dubay
>
>>>> Carl Keyes <Ckeyes@duey.california.com> 09/12 5:53 AM >>>
>Dan,
>
>I'm still having no luck setting up com ports that work.
>I've taken it in to have it done "professionally" but that hasn't
>worked
>either. Where would I find a quad serial board? I'm going to need the
>extra ports
>in the near future. God knows who I might find to try and install it.
>
>PC hater,
>
>Carl K
>
>Daniel Dubay wrote:
>>
>> I now have two quad serial boards in my Win95 machine.  Each is
>> configured for sharing one IRQ.  The first is configured for com5-8
>and
>> has RJ45 connectors.  The second is com9-12 and has DB15 and DB25
>> connectors.  This is very versatile and leaves com1-4 for modem
etc.
>I
>> particularly like the RJ45 connectors because they eliminate many
>> adaptors.  I can get web addresses if you need them.  Other people
>on
>> this list gave them to me.
>>
>> Dan Dubay
>

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