Good timely advice. Another place where you can still get them is http://www.jdr.com I have a 5 year or so ISA card with 4 serial ports on it, 2 parallel ports, a HD and floppy controller in a drawer
CDW has een a good source for the SIIG CyberPort PCI boards, which I find excellent -- Four serial plus one LPT, all on a shared IRQ. And the LPT port works fine on CW, even under XP (with UserPort d
I would be very surprised if serial ports disappear any time soon. Lots of industrial equipment is controlled via serial ports (mostly with the pricey Rocketport controllers). Barry W2UP -- Barry Kut
Barry is very correct about this. What it could mean is in the future if we want a PC with serial/parallel ports we will be buying it from an industrial/business dealer rather than a consumer electro
And what is so wrong about that? I've never purchased one of those "plug and play" machines, and never will. Most dealers will mount the mb for you, and if you can't figure out how to install a seria
Nothing wrong with that in my book. It just might be a surprise to those who are accustomed to shopping in the electronics superstores. "You mean I can't buy the latest CD release by the Atomized Neu
My experience has been that, provided you shop around, buying a ready made computer is cheaper than "brewing your own". I FAX a request for quote stating my exact requirements to about a dozen local
To One and all: When I saw Jon's note referring to his successful use of XP & WriteLog, I dropped him a direct email. I had been frustrated in getting XP to work and he walked me thru the process and