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Re: [ECS] Re: Connecting to a desktop David Rabin Thu, 01 Oct 1998 19:41:19 -0500

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 Thu, 01 Oct 1998 19:41:19 -0500
i am about to buy one at CDW with 4 positions out and one position in and
they seem very reasonable. they have female db25 or female db9 or male db9
devices (all five connections are the same).

david

At 03:15 PM 10/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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
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>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
>> 
>> "Natura non facit saltum" - Alfred Marshall 1890
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