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[ct-user] HOW MANY COM PORTS ??

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Subject: [ct-user] HOW MANY COM PORTS ??
From: Setzler, James M" <Setzler_James_M@code80.npt.nuwc.navy.mil (Setzler, James M)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:54:29 -0500
> Greetings,
> 
> Here's a real basic computer question.  
> 
> I've a 486 DX4/100 mother board with WIN 95 installed.  The MB does
> not have on-board controllers.  I usually run CT or Loq-EQF booted to
> the WIN95 DOS prompt or boot to DOS 6.2.   I don't usually use the
> WIN95 DOS window;  although sometimes I do with no real apparent
> problems.    I want to expand the computers connections capabilities
> by having almost everything connected to it at one time.  I want to be
> able to connect mouse, Radio #1, Radio #2, Packet TNC, RTTY TNC,
> modem, DVP, Printer, 2-radio switch, etc, etc....  you get the
> picture.  This takes a lot of ports. 
> 
>       How many ports can I have active at one time?   Am I limited to
> a total of 4 COM and 3 LPT ports operating at one time?  Or, with the
> appropriate I/O boards installed, could I have, say, 6 COM and 2 LPT
> ports active at one time? 
> 
>       If I am limited to no more than 4 COM and 3 LPT ports active at
> any one time,  can I have 6 serial and 2 parallel devices physically
> connected to the computer all the time and, with various programs, use
> no more than the requisite 4 COM / 3 LPT ports at one time?
> 
> thanks & 73  James / k1sd
> 
> 
> 

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