From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 13 07:13:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA11054 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:13:22 -0800 Received: from desiree.teleport.com (desiree.teleport.com [192.108.254.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA11048 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:13:18 -0800 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from uucp@localhost) by desiree.teleport.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id HAA22479; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:13:01 -0800 Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id GAA01081; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 06:58:53 -0800 Message-Id: <199501121458.GAA01081@dtr.com> Subject: Re: source for multiport boards To: WELCHDW@wofford.edu Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 06:58:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <950113072831.214011a0@wofford.edu> from "WELCHDW@wofford.edu" at Jan 13, 95 07:28:31 am Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1313 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Can you suggest a mail order business that offers AST or BOCA > multiport boards at very good prices? (These are the brands that > FreeBSD 2.0 suggests as particularly compatible.) I bought a BOCA 6 port serial board that has 16550-compatible UARTs for about $80US from Computer Express. They are on the web at "http://www.cexpress.com:2700/". Here's a source for the AST's. Forwarded message: From: lanequip@interlink.net (LANEQUIP) Newsgroups: tor.forsale Subject: AST 4 Port Serial Interface $37.00 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 01:53:22 Organization: MixNet Organization Lines: 23 Message-ID: AST 4 Port Serial Interfaces $37.00 Board is populated with 4x 16450 UARTs Interface is ISA 8 Bit Includes Hydra cable to 4x DB25 Male Comes with Xenix Drivers and can provide DOS drivers if required Supports Linux Shipping included C.O.D. anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. 130 Available Specs as follows: The cards are configurable as CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4 CONFIG /1 2A0-2A7 2A8-2AF 2B0-2B7 2B8-2BE CONFIG /2 1A0-1A7 1A8-1AF 1B0-1B7 1B8-1BE CONFIG /3 3F8-3FF 2F8-2FF 2B0-2B7 2B8-2BE CONFIG /4 3F8-3FF 2F8-2FF 1B0-1B7 1B8-1BE IRQ CAN BE CONFIGED TO SHARE 2,3,4,5,6,OR 7. EXCEPT IN CONFIG 2 AND 3 WHERE CH1 AND CH2 ARE USING IRQs 4 AND 3 RESPECTIVELY.