Some senseless babbling from Jonathan Michaels to All
on 03-29-98  23:52 about stb 4 port serial card...
 JM> i have inherited an stb 4 port serial card, it has a startech 16650
 JM> vlsi chip on it and jumper for irq and address for each of the 4 serial
 JM> ports. it has fifo caching and those funny ps/2ish ports on the
 JM> backplane. 
 JM> can somebody who has one help me with where to get the cable for this
 JM> card, more importantlu where i can get dicumantaion/drivers etc for it.
E-mail me at thanny@home.com (or netmail via Fido if you don't have e-mail 
access) for documentation questions.  I have this card with documentation, 
but there's too much information to post without specific questions.
As for the wires, I suggest trying STB.  The connectors are not proprietary 
- standard 8-pin DIN connectors.  My manual describes them as IBM cables, 
so you could also try there as well, but I wouldn't bet on the organization 
necessary to order such a small part.  If you've got a nerdy computer store 
around you, you might try there as well.
Alternately, you can try http://www.computeresp.com/ 
That site has a lot of links to vendors for all kinds of stuff.  You might 
find something.
 JM> i believe thatt this is the serial card that was being advertised by
 JM> steve winters of christian fidonet conference fame some years ago.
Ugh.  Almost makes me want to rip it out :)
 JM> is id possible to set this up on an os/2 box ? how, currently os/2
 JM> sees a serial cards but when it comes to connecting a modem os/2
 JM> complain's about the card not being thier, that is were os/2 thinks it
 JM> is .. thes card cam out od a ms win95 box that ran binkleyterm (not
 JM> very reliably, it was one of my downlinks)
Works wonderfully with OS/2 using the SIO serial drivers.  I have all four 
ports sharing the same IRQ, which SIO supports.  You can probably set each 
port to a separate IRQ to get COM.SYS working with it, but I recommend SIO 
just the same.
The configuration of the jumpers is very much more complicated than it 
appears, so you won't be able to guess at it :)
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
... Never attribute to malice what can be explained by simple stupidity.
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