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- From: David Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hardware Ideas
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 14:54:36 GMT
- Organization: Racal-Datacom
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- henke@hv.se (Henrik Wetterstrom) wrote:
- >In article <4dc6f4$k91@daily-planet.execpc.com>, dagekko@earth.execpc.com (Ericj Hill) writes:
- >: One of the hardware profects the a500/a600/a1200 needs is a multi-
- >: parallel/serial adapter. something that comes out of the standard
- >:parallel and allows 2-4 parallel ports. A new parallel driver would have
- >:to be written as well.
- >: Is this possible/feasible.
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- >There's a hack for adding another serialport and a parallelport to the Amiga.
- >It could probably be made to every amiga model. It adds another 8520 to the
- >two existing and puts it into the address space at it's own address.
- >$bfc00x or whatever it was. It comes with a serial.device that knows of
- >the new, added, I/O chip. The hack and all it's dokumentation is available
- >on Aminet. I haven't done it myself, but it did not look very difficult
- >to build. I think it was called multiface or something like that.
- >
- >/Henrik
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- You could buy the new Surfing Squirrel to add a second, high-speed serial port.
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- D. G.
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