A company i worked for bought a small healthcare "utilization review" company in the @1983 and they had 5 pc's with just that configuration with contractor written software. We replaced it with a Microvax II.
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 1, 2018, at 10:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> We had those in every PC in the office. >>> Made PCs suddenly useful ;-) > >> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> Can I ask what you were doing that needed more than two serial ports? >> Especially "every PC in the office". >> I can see a few special purpose computers. But I can't imagine a use case >> for having them in every PC. > > You put one into each of five computers, then you arrange them in a > pentagram, with ten null-modem cables. > > Then you write software to make your net work. > Or summon the dark overlord.
