Jim Howarth wrote:
>
> Get a PS/2 mouse and free up com one.. :) There are also serial device
> sharing gadgets out there as well. This is why USB was thought up. The
> present seral port system became more and more inferior as more and more
> external devices came out and needed their own little resource.
Or you could consider one of those 8/16 port serial cards I see in Linux
Journal adverts. Single internal card then a bunch of cables out the
back side of the card. Look pretty snazzy if you've got a lot of
devices to hook up.
> > Not to complain, but, what are you supposed to do if you have something
> > plugged into the only serial port? An internal ISA is the only option.
> > Where I work there are a lot of pieces of equipment (gas chromatographs,
> > HPLCs, FTIRs, Colorimeter doohickies) reporting data through the serial
> > port. The new stuff uses SCSI or special cards. but say at home I have
> > a docking station for a Palm V (I wish), I don't want to unplug it every
> > time I use the modem.
> >
> > >On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > >> should support such junk. But there is a linmodem project. I think
> > >> they should support them since most new computers come with one. I for
> > >> one would not have one.
> > >This is a good point. . .also with new PC specs calling for the death of
> > ISA,
> > >the options for modems will pretty soon be divided among HSP HCF Win
> > modems and
> > >externals. . .
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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corporation
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