have fun at Dayton, jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Brown" <k9mi@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] adding serial ports to computer
> Glad to hear you were able to get all the ports Jack. I have only had to
> buy
> the ByteRunner card with 2 serial and 1 lpt port so far, and that has to
> be
> around 12 years ago. If I do a format, I just go to their site and get XP
> drivers. There is a different set for Win 2k. I need to go there and burn
> them to a cd so just in case, I'll always have them. They even still sell
> ISA ports. With the PCI card I have, it came with a disk for the drivers
> and
> of course 12 years ago, Dos was still the OS a lot of us used for our ham
> radio computers anyway. This has a Dos driver that takes some configuring,
> with a small program written in Germany. I can think of only one program
> it
> wouldn't work with. It loads what it calls "virtual drivers" at Dos boot
> up.
>
> Sorry to get off on a non Ten Tec tangent. How about this, it always
> worked
> great with my Omni 6 opt 3 !
>
> 73 and enjoy Dayton.
>
> Mike, K9MI
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jack" <jfriend31@comcast.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 03 55
> Subject: [TenTec] adding serial ports to computer
>
>
>> after doing much checking as to USB to Serial, i took the suggestion that
>> i add a PCI serial port card to my desktop. today i found a small
>> computer
>> store that actually had a PCI I/O card with two serial ports and a
>> parallel port. i just installed the card and drivers. now my desktop has
>> 4
>> serial ports and 2 parallel ports. all for a few moments and $30.15.
>> simple is the word for desktops if one has the slot available. finding
>> the
>> card is more difficult than installation by far.
>> jack ak7o
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