Re: Dual port serial card?

[cknoblo@oasis.novia.net (Carl Knoblock)]

Louis Schulman (louiss@gate.net) wrote:
> In <50pnfe$c8t@nntp.novia.net>, cknoblo@oasis.novia.net (Carl Knoblock) writes:
> 
> >Scott Barker (scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca) wrote:
> 
> >> Has anyone ever heard of a dual-port serial card? I've got an apple // card
> >> which claims to be one. I've got no docs, though. Any ideas how it might work?
> >
> >Probably like my old Moutain Computer multi-function card, by making one
> >of the ports respond to the address of another slot. That slot can still
> >be used by cards that don't use slot rom, such as memory cards. The MC
> >card was one serial, one parallel, and a clock.
> 
> Yes, but this would only be the case if his serial card had some sort of jumper
> to the motherboard (like the Mountain card), which would allow the card to intercept
> calls to other slots and use them as "phantom slots".
> 
True, but the MC card jumper had a two pin plug on both ends, so Scott
might want to check that card for a couple of pins for the jumper.

> BTW, does your Mountain card work for serial transfer?  I can't get mine to run at
> higher than 600 baud, no matter what I do.  And I have the manual and software.
> 
> Louis

Sorry, but I no longer have the card or documentation, and I never tried
any transfers, so I don't know what it could do.

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