[Ham-Computers] RE: my kingdom for a few more serial ports....

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

Jeff,

Didn't find the old message, but I did find the product that was referenced.  They aren't by a HAM based company - they're offered by Comtrol, a large industrial control company and they're not cheap ($250 for 4-ports, $500 for 8-ports...what a rip).  More info on their "Rocketport USB" series here:

http://www.comtrol.com/products/catalog.asp?group=usbserialhubs

I also found reference on an RTTY reflector to a more affordable USB to 8-port Serial adapter based on a Prolific chipset (Prolific's chipset is found on most cheap USB to single serial adapters).  It's about $140.  The archived list reference is here:

http://lists.contesting.com/_rtty/2005-10/msg00083.html

And the product reference is here:

http://www.cooldrives.com/eipousbtosea.html


Hope these fit what you're looking for.

73,

  - Aaron Hsu, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:03 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] my kingdom for a few more serial ports....

We've all heard the story.
Some guy has a bunch of scanners, which he'd like to be controlled from a singe pc.

The pc in question has two serial ports.  Although this is better than the new pc's that have one or none, two won't do it.

I know I can buy a few serial ISA boards.  I know I can get those Digiboards that can run 8 from one card.  Don't have much in the way of empty slots anyway.

Is there a better way?  I'd like about 5 additional ports.
The board, whose mfgr I have long forgotten, features an AMD K6, 512M RAM, Windows 2k (might downgrade to XP), and 2 USB(1) ports.



Thanks,

 -jeff
    CEO of Sarcasm
    Captain Chocolate
    

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