BBS card, ISA8bit multi serial, 4 channels

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Nov 1 12:29:12 CDT 2018


>> 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.


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