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From: mkd@mtunh.ATT.COM (Mark Darby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Serial Port Board (Less Expensive)
Message-ID: <648@mtunh.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 89 00:59:08 GMT
References: <503@madnix.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <503@madnix.UUCP>, perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes:
> 
> At AmiExpo in New York, March 3 thru 5, we will take orders on our response
> to  your  views:  The DSP (Dual Serial Board).  The list price is $299.  At
> AmiExpo  we  will  offer the board at $220 including shipping in the United
> States (excluding New York city and state sales tax).
> 
> The board contains two independent serial ports which can be programmed for
> operation  at  up  to  78.6KBaud.   The  board (which fits in a single slot
> including  rear connector mounting) comes out with 2 DB-9 ``AT'' compatible
> ports which include:
> 
> []        
> 

If this product performs as great as it sounds, it will be a potential 
winner in the AMIGA market. I only have one thing to request....


PLEASE PLEASE  PLEASE  

Have someone check to see if the board works in an Amiga 500 configuration
using some hardware expansion cage other than the ASDG racks!!
I understand their availability to use in testing the board, but I don't think
the average customer would really want to cut away the sides of an ASDG rack
to get a A2000 card to work with an A500.

Perry, could you get someone (in ASDG, outside ASDG, ???) to test this
(or the twin-x solution for that matter) on one or more of the commercially
available expansion racks for the 500 which specifically
fit "2000-style" cards and
could this info then be posted here on the net?


Mark K. Darby
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