[WriteLog] More COM Ports

[Jim Kinser]

Depends on Motherboard and operating system.  If you have expansion slots 
for ISA-bus and/or PCI-bus, then you can find some good serial/parallel 
cards at http://www.byterunner.com .  It seems like you can never have 
enough ports.  I bought a 4 Serial/1Parallel port PCI-bus card from this 
online store, and have been very pleased with how well it installed and 
works.  I am running a 300 MHZ Pentium II with Windows 98.  You just plug 
the PCI-bus card into one of the expansion slots and the system does the 
rest.  If you have only ISA slots then you have a few other things to set 
up.  I now have 8 COM Ports and 2 LPT Ports.  I use the extra ports for 
various devices, mostly ham radio related (TNC's, CW keying, etc.).  By the 
way, it's nice to have the additional LPT port as well, so don't hesitate 
to get at least one of those on the card as well.
GL
es 73
Jim N0AJ

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From:	David Douglass [SMTP:ddouglass@mmfsias.com.au]
Sent:	Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:37 PM
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Subject:	[WriteLog] More COM Ports

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