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From: simsong@athena.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Multiple Serial Ports
Keywords: serial ports terminals
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Date: 26 May 90 03:19:32 GMT
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I have been trying to interest several third party manufactuers in the
idea of producing a board that would plug into the back of the cube and
give the user 8 or 16 serial ports.  They could be either 8-pin MAC
style ports or (better) 9-pin IBM PC/AT style ports.

Such a board would make the cube an ideal machine for serving as
a telecom hub.  For an extra $20/port, you could make the ports be
2400 baud modems.

Such a board would cost no more than $200 to make, in quantity, and could
sell for $2000 or more.  Any takers?