Subject: Re: AST FourPort/Bocaboard suppliers From: I_Stewart@equinox.gen.nz (I P Stewart) Date: 7 Apr 1993 21:53:34 +1200
Mike McBain (mjm@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: Does anyone know of a mail-order supplier of either the AST FourPort
: or Bocaboard multiport serial cards? They'd need to be comfortable
: shipping to Australia.
I don't know about the Bocaboard, but the AST board is now out of
production (at least that's what a local AST dealer told me as he
sold me his last one that had been sitting around collecting dust,
for NZ$200!!) Pity most of the multiport boards around are
fancy and expensive. BTW, I got 3 ports working on IRQs 4,3 and
5 respectively just using a normal multifunction (disk, diskette,
game, serial, printer etc) card and a $50 add-on dual serial port
card. Unfortunately, presumably due to hardware restrictions, you
can't run two ports on the same IRQ (even if the software's willing!)
-Ian.
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