baud modifier

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Mar 11 10:41:02 CDT 2007


My recollection is very foggy as I never had a chance to use one of 
these things, but there were devices (inexpensive) to do this for use 
with printers (at least in one direction)  that would not only buffer 
up data to be printed, but also do protocol conversions (parallel-to-
serial, serial-to-parallel).  If someone had a very old Inmac catalog 
from the 80's, I suspect you might find something there.

There were also devices for sharing terminals on a single port sold 
by Inmac and several other companies. 

Finding one of these devices themselves would be harder as I suspect 
that most have long been discarded as peripheral "junk".  In a snap, 
almost  any old PC with two serial ports could be programmed to do 
the same thing.

Cheers,
Chuck





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