Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:8797 comp.unix.i386:1477 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogccse!cvedc!nosun!qiclab!jamesd From: jamesd@qiclab.UUCP (James Deibele) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Equinox multi port boards Message-ID: <3323@qiclab.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 89 07:48:05 GMT References: <458@gallium.UUCP> <134@tiamat.fsc.com> Reply-To: jamesd@qiclab.UUCP (James Deibele) Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon. Lines: 28 In article <134@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes: >I'm impressed, too. Enough at least to ask a few more questions about this >board. :-) I've ordered one of the darn things on Monday, so I'll be interested in seeing what the thing actually does once it arrives. I talked with two distributors and Equinox themselves before making the decision to buy the board. I've got marketing propaganda on the way, too. In the meantime, what I remember them saying is that the board will do 38.4K output on 24 ports, no problem. I don't about input, and I'm embarassed to say I never even thought of asking (although I expect the output to input ratio to be 20:1 or more). The board is made with two ASIC chips instead of UARTs, chips that were taken from some design that Equinox did somewhere else (they're supposed to be a big deal in mini telecomm) and decided would make a nice design for a board. The 24-port version is $1795 (list), the 12-port version is $1295 (list, and is supposed to be shipping this week). There are supposed to be many different ways of hooking things up. I want to hook up modems, and maybe a terminal or two, so I ordered the DB-25 connectors, which are supposed to be 18" long. If they are what I think I ordered, you should be able to mount the modems on a shelf or rack behind the machine and save some dollars on cabling. More when I get my hands on the thing. -- James Deibele jamesd@qiclab BBSs: (503) 760-1473 or (503) 761-7451 TECHBooks: The Computer Book Specialists --- Voice: (503) 646-8257 12600 SW 1st Beaverton, OR 97005 --- Book reviewers wanted for computer science & electronics - contact us for more information.