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From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Help... need more serial ports
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.023636.12726@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 02:36:36 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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I have an old Mac 512/e with 2 megs and a 5meg IIx, and an Imagewriter
II and a modem. I sometimes use the IIx's HD from the 512/e with one
of the public domain Appleshare-compatible file servers, as well as
play multi-player games using Appletalk. I keep the printer and modem
hooked up to the IIx since that's where I do my serious work.

Problem: the IIx now needs 3 serial ports: one for printer, one for
modem and one for Appletalk...

Any suggestions? Currently, I'm manually unplugging things, not an
easy task as the machines have a wall backing them and so groping around
the back for the cables is no fun.

Will a switch box mess up appletalk? I have yet to want to run apple
talk and the modem at the same time so I have the modem using the
printer port and the printer using the modem port...

Thanks in advance.

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