[WriteLog] Adding a third and forth com port?

[Richard Thorne]

I recently installed a SIIG 4 port pci card in my PII 350 machine.  I now have 6
working com ports.  The cost for the card from http://www.cdw.com was less than
$100 with shipping.

RCARIELLO wrote:

> Hello to All.
> My computer has two com ports on the mother board. I need to add two more. I
> have tried the plug in boards that I use with my 486 DOS machine. Windows 98
> seems to recognize the extra com ports but I can not get them to function
> with Writelog, Win4dx or CT even when running the computer as a straight DOS
> machine.
>
> The computer is a P-II 400. Dose anyone know of a unit that will work. I
> would like to be able to use the extra com ports under both a Windows 98 and
> DOS but if this is not possible then a solid unit to be used only with
> Windows 98.
>
> I prefer a com port board to plug into the computer mother board rather then
> a USB conversion.
>
> As a side note the plan is to run two radios, auto beam direction and a
> DX-Cluster connection.
>
> Thanks, Rich AA2MF
>
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Rich Thorne
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