BBS card, ISA8bit multi serial, 4 channels

Grant Taylor cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Thu Nov 1 13:28:52 CDT 2018


On 11/01/2018 12:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> A modem,
> serial mouse,
> serial printer,
> serial "RS232" scanner, external drive (yes, they existed), serial 
> control of CD cchanger (consider Kubik 240 disc carousel (SCSI, but 
> serial disc change control)), serial EPROM programmer, serial drawing 
> tablet, serial X10 controller, serial VOTRAX, logging of UPS, etc.

I absolutely agree that such bests of peripherally connected systems 
exist.  I would be shocked to hear that "every PC in the office" was 
equipped as such.

I do wonder how well software that used said peripherals dealt with COM 
ports above 4.



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Grant. . . .
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