[slinkelist] RE: Serial cards

[rbrocaw]

Martin Gotch wrote...

>I have ran out of serial ports on my Slink-e machine to add a CM11a X10

>interface. Any recommendations for a cheap 3 port (2 might be OK too)
>ISA
>serial card (mail order/internet) that allows "high" (10/11/12) IRQs?
>Thank
>you for any leads

I don't know where you are located, but here in electronics poor Denver
I have to mail order most everything.  I've had good luck with stuff
from Dalco
(www.dalco.com)  They sell a couple of IO boards that should fit your
bill.
Their 4-port serial ISA card sells for $48.50.

>I guess I will have to venture out to Fry's (my stomach is allready
>starting to hurttt). I didn't mention that I liked NT server, but it is

>nice for the slinke, X10 & other non critical home automation stuff
that
>I want to run for more than a few days between bootings. The Netware
>server (a 6+ yr old 486) is my "real" file server (NEVER has crashed,
>unlike my MicroSoft W95/98 boxes which taunt me daily!! ).

Interesting... I'm running a server machine here that does network,
time,
printer and file services using Windows 98 Second edition... I reboot it

every two or three weeks just on general principles, but it has never
crashed on its own...