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From: merlyn@digibd.com (Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Does there exist a card for the Mac II for supporting multiple serial lines???
Keywords: multiple serial lines
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.191938.24931@digibd.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 19:19:38 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.220244.19536@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, St. Louis Park, MN
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monching@cs.mcgill.ca (Patrick WONG) writes:
>I wish to be able to have multiple lines connected to one computer. Does
>there exist any product which would allow me to do something of this sort?
>It would be for a Mac IIfx or Mac IIx.
>patrick wong                   | McGill University           

DigiBoard is (finally) shipping the Mac OS version for our Nu/Xi board,
which is a 4- or 8-serial port board that plugs into the Nubus.  We
support the Comm Toolbox, System 6.0.x & System 7.0, and A/UX 2.0 (but
not Mac OS *under* A/UX, yet).  Top baud rates are 115200 baud, and
it can sustain 8 ports at 38400 baud going full speed.  It also has all
the RS-232 control lines (CTS,DTR,RTS,DSR,DCD) which operate normally
under A/UX and can be configured or programmed under Mac OS (e.g. you can
force hardware handshaking on using RTS/CTS and map DCD to DTR).  The A/UX
driver has modem control and Berkeley dial-in/dial-out support so you can
use one modem in both directions without changing inittab or your run level.

For more info:
DigiBoard, Inc
6751 Oxford St.
St. Louis Park, MN  55426
(612) 922-8055

I wrote both drivers, so if you have technical questions, just send me
e-mail.  merlyn@digibd.com,  uunet!digibd!merlyn

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Merlyn LeRoy