[Dx4win] Computer advice ??

[A. Sewell]

Hi Bill,

I bought a new "whiz bang" computer from Dell a couple of months ago.  
It is a 9100.  Of course, it had no serial ports.  Rather than use USB 
to serial port adapters I made sure it had some PCI slots.  It has 3 PCI 
slots along with some Enhanced PCI slots.  Luckily none of the PCI slots 
were in use so I was able to install 2 two port PCI serial cards I had 
from my old computer.  These are very reasonably priced from 
byterunner.com and easy to install and configure.  So now I have four 
serial ports as well as 7 USB ports.

I was really surprized at how quickly the USB ports filled up.  The 
computer came with a USB keyboard and mouse and I had two USB printers 
and a USB scanner.  So while 7 USB ports may sound like a lot they fill 
up fast!

73,  Alan  N5NA


Bill Clark wrote:
> Greetings Steve, been a while. I am still running 5.03 and my old Win98 266 hz puter with Radio on com2, the larger plug comport( I reversed them here cuz I had the cables already made up from earlier)
> Running my MFJ TNC for RTTY on com 1-smaller comport connector. 
> Using TCP/IP for cluster communications on the internet.
> Everything working great but as you cans see my stuff is a little ancient and can't use many programs anymore. 
> Thionking of getting some sort of whiz bang puter and my main concern is having to use some adapters for the com ports????
> Is this a pretty straight forward operation anymore? Can a computer dummy do it??
> It's probably about time I caught up on the Dx4win newest version also??
> Appreciate any help.
> 73  BILL-W5VW
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