Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: Serial lead & COM ports Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:30:38 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <36597F9E.8A5@manc.u-net.com> References: <3658B934.5D2C@manc.u-net.com> <36596E28.BD6C464A@parny.force9.co.uk> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Steve Parnell wrote: > I got a bog standard ISA serial card from MAPLIN about a year ago for > about a tenner. 10 notes is a price I'd pay for one, and there's a Maplin near me. I seem to remember trying them though a while back to no avail. The thing about Maplin is they know their stuff (compare to ... TANDY) [Another Simpsons reference I'm afraid: Homer: "Right, let's try looking where all the social misfits hang out!" Lisa: "OK, I'll start with Radio Shack." ;-)] An new (internal) modem would be a better solution for me as my 28.8k jobby can't cut the proverbial mustard on 'net Quake anymore, so I think I'll look into getting one that can use COM2 without having to disable the physical port. Cheers Steve and Toby, Jim -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj -----------------------------------------