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From: sbl@supergirl.hut.fi (Simo Matti Blom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PC with 2 serial ports
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.134739.7226@santra.uucp>
Date: 5 Feb 91 13:47:39 GMT
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Reply-To: sbl@niksula.hut.fi (Simo Matti Blom)
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Hello

I would like to know where one could buy a cheap PC that meets the following
requirements:
  - 2 COM-ports
  - hard-disk, keyboard and display NOT necessary
  - UPS or accumalator
  - cheap

Some portables could do, but usually they have only one COM-port and to have
a second you must byu a very expensive card from the manufacturer.
A XT could also be used, but one must buy a expensive UPS to have continuous
power supply.
I have heard that it might be possible to use a LPT-port as a second COM-port.
Does anybody know anything more about that ?

Simo Blom
sbl@niksula.hut.fi