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Re: [ECS] ECSW & Win98 Daniel Dubay Fri, 14 Aug 1998 06:55:11 -0400

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Hello Gerry,

I like your setup (com2-10).  I will buy one of these if I can't find a similar 4
or 8 port card that uses RJ-45 connectors.  These are easy to splice and avoids
many adapters.

Thanks

Dan Dubay

Gerry Duprey wrote:

> > >I haven't tried 'em, I'm just passing it along.  http://www.byterunner.com/
>
> > I just purchased an 8 port ByteRunner card for about $125 direct from
> > ByteRunner.
>
> I picked one up a few months ago and after getting it set up (not really
> too hard at all), it works great.  All 8 ports on one IRQ.
>
> It shipped configured as COM1-8 and I shifted it to COM 3-10 (leaving COM1
> for my mouse and COM2 for other things (I wanted all 10 ports available).
> I have 6 of the ports in use now quite successfully.
>
> The only thing I wish they did differently is the "octopus" cable.  The
> board has a DB50 (or something close) on it and they supply an octopus
> cable that breaks that into 8 DB25 (female) connectors.  I'd have prefered
> DB9 connectors as nearly everything today uses DB9s.  I wound up buying 8
> DB25->DB9 adapters (about $25 total).
>
> The boards will also work with Unix/Linux.  And while that might sound
> silly to say (after all, if they look like COM ports, they'll work with
> Linux), they have special "extended" addressing modes to make
> character processing more efficiant when running under Linux.  Doesn't
> interfere with Win95 usage at all, but a nice little plus.
>
> As soon as I need mroe ports, I'll definatly buy another.
>
> Gerry Duprey                     EMAIL: gerry@msage.com
> Micro Sage Software Systems      VOICE: (734) 663-0444
> 130 South First Street             WWW: http://www.msage.com/~gerry
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA

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