Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mmlai!burzio
From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Serial ports for 9000/370
Summary: ports on HP-IB
Keywords: 8 port cards?
Message-ID: <576@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 18:13:15 GMT
References: <241@zircon.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <241@zircon.UUCP>, davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts) writes:
> We need to add 4 more serial ports to our HP9000 series 370 HPUX
> system.  We already have one expansion box full of cards
> (16 ports in all), and I'd much rather swap an 8-port card
> for one of the 4-port units rather than spend the $$$ for
> a new expansion box.

I have a catalog from a company called IOtech which lists a
four port RS232 box that attaches to an HP-IB cable.  You
could drop one of these on your slow-speed HP-IB.  IOtech
is at (216)439-4093.  I've never used this device, but it
should be a lot cheaper than more expansion boxes.  The
catalog is good to get just for all the neat HP-IB gizzmos :-)

Have you considered a terminal server on ETHERNET?  We use
various varieties of TCP/IP termianal servers and they all work
just fine.  We have a couple hundred ports out there, and they
can all hook up to our HPs.

Hope this helps.

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