Re: Serial Ports on a Mac

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:44:20 EST

At 2:03 PM 12/2/95, David Frazier wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get a device to give a Mac 6100/66 3 serial
>ports? I had this same problem several years ago, and simply looked in
>Mac Warehouse or some such catalog and found a device that plugged into
>either the Modem or Printer port, and gave you 3 for 1. A search of the
>same catalogs has turned up nothing. That device seems not to exist anymore.

Those devices are generally only switchers, that is, only one device can be
active at a time. Some are manual and some are automatic. Now that you
mention it, they do seem to have disappeared lately.

There is a NuBus card called, I believe, a Hurdler that will give you up
to, again I believe, 4 additional serial ports. It is frequently used for
BBS systems. I don't know the name of the company that makes it, but I bet
if you called Spider Island (makers of the TeleFinder BBS software) or
SoftArc (who make the FirstClass BBS system) that they could give you
current information.

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