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From: chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for inexpensive multiport card
Keywords: multiport serial i/o
Message-ID: <1218@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 4 May 90 18:27:17 GMT
References: <191@nvanbc.UUCP> <109@syscon.UUCP>
Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin (yay!)
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In article <109@syscon.UUCP> larry@syscon.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>The Digiboard 8 port dumb boards are going for around $450 (wholesale US$)
>and are excellent and supported by most operating systems.

They ship with *socketed* 16450 UART's.  I talked to Digiboard about them
recently, and they said they would be willing to ship them with empty
sockets or with 16550's.  I don't know if they've got some minimum quantity
they want to do this, though.
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