IBM 5161

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Apr 2 19:48:45 2003

At 06:35 PM 4/2/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>
>>>>incompatible, and they had a giant surplus of serial (RS232 and current
>>>>loop) cards that nobody wanted, so they provided a "FREE" serial card to
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why did 'mobody' want them? A serial port is a very useful thing to have...
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Because they occupied an entire slot (out of 5 on the PC), and other
>>companies sold "multifunction" cards that could use the same slot for
>>serial, parallel, clock, and memory. Most of those were marketed as SIX
>>functions - how many people remember what the other two functions were?
>>
>floppy, game port

    BEEP! Nope.

   Joe
Received on Wed Apr 02 2003 - 19:48:45 BST