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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Anybody Have An Amiga PC w/Bridge Board?
Message-ID: <885@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 01:40:20 GMT
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>It is my understanding that you can use a serial I/O card for an XT 
>in one of the XT/AT slots in the A-2000.  You would have to use a 
>switch to use the printer on the Amiga.

I'm not quite sure what you are asking here, but, you can use an IBM-
compatible serial port card with the BB.  As for printers, you can
have the Amiga "lend" it's parallel port to the BB as LPT1:, then take
it back.  It can be used only by one processor at a time, but, by either
one, so a parallel printer could be used without a hardware switch.

>Any recomendations for brand, features, etc?  I need it for use with 
>a modem. 

Two thoughts.  WHY put the modem on the PC side?  The PC is not able
to multitask.  Put the modem on the Amiga side, either on the built-in
or on an expansion board (I have the C= 7-port; runs REALLY nicely).
You can still make the files available to the PC.  However, if you
still need the serial port on the PC side, I'd get something like an
old QuadRAM GOLD, which had a couple of serial ports, a parallel port,
and room for some 64K chips to bring the BB to 640K.  I'm sure other
PC add-ons will work, also.  For that matter, if this is a dedicated
operation, just get a PC modem board.  They're usually cheaper than
externals, anyway, and you won't have to buy the board.

Dan Taylor
* My opinions, not NCR's *