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Re: PC: Serial Ports
- To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: PC: Serial Ports
- From: Colin Bradford <colin@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:41:26 +0000 (GMT)
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, BUTLER, Tony, FM wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the first to have this problem - a serious shortage
in the
> serial port department:-(
[snip]
> Back in the good old days when 'on board serial/parallel ports' was
just a
> pipe dream, you could get serial IO cards ten-a-penny. (NB: this is
not the
> begginning of another 'when I were a lad' thread :-)))
> These days it all I can see are 8 port jobbies costing 100's for
specialist
> high speed comms.
> I don't need high speed, I just need more ports.
>
> OR USB versions of CM11/Slink-e/Intersekt etc.... :-)
How about using USB to Serial adaptors, and hubs? I can see no reason
(note: I haven't tried it) why you can't run lots of USB->Serial
adaptors from one PC, using USB hubs to connect them together. The only
snag that I can see is that because USB readdresses everything on boot,
if you reboot your PC, the cable->serial port mapping might change. I
don't know how Windows would cope with this.
I've got a Cyclades Cyclom Y/ISA 8 port card in my main PC, which I got
>from
appears that Cyclades now distribute direct in the UK -
www.cyclades.com.
Cheers,
Colin.
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