On 11/1/18 11:28 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 11/01/2018 12:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> A modem, >> serial mouse, >> serial printer, >> serial "RS232" scanner, external drive (yes, they existed), serial >> control of CD cchanger (consider Kubik 240 disc carousel (SCSI, but >> serial disc change control)), serial EPROM programmer, serial drawing >> tablet, serial X10 controller, serial VOTRAX, logging of UPS, etc. > > I absolutely agree that such bests of peripherally connected systems > exist. I would be shocked to hear that "every PC in the office" was > equipped as such. > > I do wonder how well software that used said peripherals dealt with COM > ports above 4.
Generally, the software that dealt with that used its own configuration mechanism, as there's only room for 4 COM ports in the BIOS RAM area. --Chuck
