On 11/01/2018 12:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
A modem,
serial mouse,
serial printer,
serial "RS232" scanner, external drive (yes, they existed), serial
control of CD cchanger (consider Kubik 240 disc carousel (SCSI, but
serial disc change control)), serial EPROM programmer, serial drawing
tablet, serial X10 controller, serial VOTRAX, logging of UPS, etc.
I absolutely agree that such bests of peripherally connected systems
exist. I would be shocked to hear that "every PC in the office" was
equipped as such.
I do wonder how well software that used said peripherals dealt with COM
ports above 4.
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Grant. . . .
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