somewhere we have a bunch of ISA cards that are like the ports on my hp time share system just not 16 ports...I seem to remember between 4 and 8... and they were for a PC type machine of course with the ISA ports. Although seen years ago I think I remember which shelf rack they got crammed into. - Anyone remember something like this? as i remember there are enough of them to let some go. Ed# at SMECC
wish I remembered more In a message dated 11/1/2018 1:30:22 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: On 2018-11-01 14:28, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > 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. This machines were running Esix and Interactive Unix (and linux?) ... So no problems at all
