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Re: [ECS] ECSW & Win98 Jon Winchester Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:06:24 -0400

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Would one of the new USB to Serial boxes work. They are a little pricey
but I saw one that had 4 ports and someone had added 4 of them to a
system to create 16 serial ports without opening the computer up.

They use no additional interrupts other than the one for the USB.


LEC1964@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Dan, thank you for the reply.
> 
>      Like you, I also would also like to find a source for a 3 or more port
> serial card that uses a single IRQ. I assume the quad you are currently using
> is from Applied Digital? According to their WEB site, they only show a dual
> that is still available. They must have stopped production on the quad.
> However, I have not talked with them directly. It also seems to me that Boca
> Research also made a quad or greater serial port card, but their WEB site
> lists nothing.
>      Since the dual PCI serial card I had mentioned is available from one of
> the local computer stores (hopefully they still have one) I can give it a try
> and return it it doesn't work out.
>      Could I ask you another question? Does the Windows device manager list
> your quad communication ports and show each using a single interrupt?
> 
> Thanks, Larry C.

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