[TenTec] adding serial ports to computer

[Mike Brown]

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 at comcast.net>
To: <tentec at 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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