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echo: os2hw
to: BAT LANG
from: JONATHAN MICHAELS
date: 1998-04-01 14:25:00
subject: stb 4 port serial card

Hello Bat!
Sunday March 29 1998 18:51, Bat Lang wrote to Jonathan Michaels:
 -=>> Quoting Jonathan Michaels to All, [28 Mar 98  16:13:40] <=-
 JM>> Hello All!
 BL > Howdy, JM!
 JM>> i have inherited an stb 4 port serial card, it has a
 JM>> startech 16650 vlsi chip on it and jumper for irq and
 JM>> address for each of the 4 serial ports. it has fifo caching
 JM>> and those funny ps/2ish ports on the backplane. can
 JM>> somebody who has one help me with where to get the cable
 JM>> for this card, more importantlu where i can get
 JM>> dicumantaion/drivers etc for it.
 JM>> i believe thatt this is the serial card that was being
 JM>> advertised by steve winters of christian fidonet conference
 JM>> fame some years ago.
 JM>> is id possible to set this up on an os/2 box ? how,
 JM>> currently os/2 sees a serial cards but when it comes to
 JM>> connecting a modem os/2 complain's about the card not being
 JM>> thier, that is were os/2 thinks it is .. thes card cam out
 JM>> od a ms win95 box that ran binkleyterm (not very reliably,
 JM>> it was one of my downlinks)
 JM>> anyhelp would be apreciated.
 BL > I enjoyed your exchange on mobo's with Linn, so I thought I'd
don't do this to me bat, i've just gotten used to be the ratbag and prime 
wit
list candidate .. or at least thats the impression i get regardsing my 
somewhat
direct opinons.
just as a matter of exchange, i am one of yor original australian fans, all
those years ago when i started in fidonet, i used to read and enjoy the dos
batchfile programming echo that you headedup .. back then i was so timid my 
own
shadow would have had a far better chance of posting that i ever would.
 BL > see what I could do to help you. {^; The bad news is: that on
snip
 BL > edited them down to what I thought would be useful to you, and
 BL > here it is:
 BL >          |                     | Alfa Computers Pty. Limited  |
 BL >          | USA                 | Unit 1, 620-632 Botany Road  |
 BL >          | International ==>   |     Alexandra, NSW 2015      |
i have an account thier
 BL > I hope this leads you to where you want to go. Good Modeming!
it is a place to start, thank you very much.
gee i never thought i'd get to talk to one of my own 'idols', as it were, now
all i have to do is get to talk to leonard cohen and i can die happy. i am
rally that simple, er uncomplicated, my desires are not really erth 
atering.
i think i will put the pc away for today and just relish this moment, for a
little while atleast.
cheers
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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