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Re: Connecting to a desktop Dan Carrington Thu, 01 Oct 1998 15:15:16 -0700

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In a word yes.  You should be able to get one at any decent computer
store.  You can get 9 pin serial or 25 pin serial or parallel.  You can
get 2 to possibly 6 switched ports.  You can get auto switches, but may
have trouble with one of these for that purpose.  

Dan Carrington



Antonio Queiroz Menezes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a data switch for the
> serial port in the desktop?
> 
> I didnīt had a desktop, only a notebook, but my bank was making
> an irrecusable offer on the HP Brio's line for anyone who signed up
> for its internet banking service and I bought one. At the same time I
> changed my phone line to ISDN and had to buy a digital modem
> which uses the serial port.
> 
> With the notebook I connected the HP 200LX with a flash card, but
> the HP Brio has no PCard port and only one serial port (I know, I
> shoul have bought an internal PCI ISDN card but didnīt). Now I
> would like to have the HP 200LX cable and the ISDN modem
> attached at the same time to the serial port with a switch to
> change between them. Is that possible?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Antonio
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Antonio Queiroz Menezes M.Sc. (Econo)
> Porto - Portugal
> abmenezes@mail.telepac.pt
> AntonioMenezes@compuserve.com
> menezesantonio@netscape.net
> 
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