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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Two devices on one serial port?
Summary: Low-cost A-B switch
Message-ID: <1287@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 90 09:15:19 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.175525.15094@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <1990Oct9.175525.15094@IRO.UMontreal.CA> u715@jsp.umontreal.ca (Beliveau Steeve) writes:
>I want to attach two devices to my serial port ( a null modem and a modem).
>What kind of switch should I use?

Buy an A-B switch that switches all 25 pins.  My serial port drives two modems,
dot-matrix and daisy-wheel printers.  I picked up a no-name A-B-C-D switch
at Fry's for $29.  Works for me.
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