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From: kevin@hal6000.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How to hook more than two things to
Message-ID: <-3852926@hal6000>
Date: 20 Oct 88 22:46:00 GMT
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Nf-From: hal6000.UUCP!kevin    Oct 20 17:46:00 1988


> I've got a MIDI interface, modem, and printer at home, and am
> constantly having to switch connections in order to use all
> three.  Does anyone know of a commercially available hardware
> switch to allow all three to be connected at once?  I would try
> building a switch myself, but the individual parts needed are
> hard to find and expensive; it would be easier to just by something.

Computer Friends makes (or sells, anyway) a 1-into-4 switchbox.  They have
both 9-pin and 8-pin models.  I bought one a while back and it's great.
Printer on printer port, then on the modem port I have modem, MIDI
interface, a MacNifty audio converter, and a cable to another computer.
No more reaching behind the Mac to switch cables!

The box is around $50 or so.

Hope this helps!

Kevin Dack
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