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From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Multiport Serial Boards...
Message-ID: <10506@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 90 20:58:41 GMT
References: <2436@crash.cts.com> <1159@kosman.UUCP>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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In article <2436@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

>I would like some in depth information on multiport serial boards.  The system
>that will use this board will be either a Kaypro 286i under SCO Xenix 286 or
>a 386SX running SCO Xenix 386 or ESIX.  The three boards that I'm aware of are
>Computone, Digiboard and Maxspeed.
> ...
>If there's another manufacturer of this piece of hardware, I'd like to be made
>aware of it.

Connect Tech, Inc, somewhere in Ontario (Guelph, I believe).

They make the Intellicon series of smart boards: Intellicon-4 and
Intellicon-8.  The 4's run up to 19200, the 8's only to 9600.  You can
use up to three of the 8's at once -- I've done this, and it works
well.  These boards have Z80's on board, so they don't have quite the
performance of the boards with 80186's, but they're half the price of
the competition and work flawlessly.  They have drivers for various
*nix's, PC-MOS, PICK, QNIX, and others.  Tech support is excellent:
they are always there, you speak to engineers, not receptionists, and
they'll send you driver updates overnight express if you have a
problem.

I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer.

--richard