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From: gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: AT I/O card with 16550, available
Summary: Not the WD16550 either
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.073129.7583@limbic.ssdl.com>
Date: 7 Apr 91 07:31:29 GMT
References: <7127.27F41B8C@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Organization: Southwest Systems Development Labs, Houston, TX
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In article <7127.27F41B8C@zswamp.fidonet.org> root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
>   YOU DON'T WANT THAT CHIP!
[...]
>   I bought NS16550AFNs from another source and plugged them in where the MX 
>had been.  No problems.  At all.
>   When buying 16550s, DON'T SETTLE FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN GENUINE NATIONAL 
>PARTS.

Amen.  Stay away from the Western Digital version also...they don't
work properly either.

-- 
Gil Kloepfer, Jr.              gil@limbic.ssdl.com   ...!ames!limbic!gil 
Southwest Systems Development Labs (Div of ICUS)   Houston, Texas
  "No one is listening until you make a mistake"  - Murphy