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sstickle@infinet.com (Scott Stickle) wrote:

>I am looking for a PCI bus card to replace on in my computer.  I have checked 
>all the suppliers I know of on line and can't find what I am looking for.  I 
>need a PCI interface for EIDE (2 required but 4 would be better).  2 15550 
>uart serial ports, floppy drive interface, and bi-directional parallel port(1 
>required 2 better).  I know they are being made as I see manufactured 
>computers with them.  Mine has one but is very outdated and I am having 
>trouble with it.

Forget getting Parallel or floppy on a PCI.  Last time I saw it happen
was a kluge (a ribbon cable to a 16-bit slot)

Don't settle for a single EIDE connector, you never know when you'll
buy that 20X (30, 40, etc) EIDE CD-Rom, or cheap tape drive that wants
an IDE port)

Don't spend TOO much for this type of product.
Anything over $50 is too much.

An ISA or VL AT I/O board might run you $30ish

If you already have a pentium chip (almost anything but a 60/66) you
can replace the entire motherboard for $99
 (check out the cheap boards at http://www.microx.com)



William T. Austin
Ground Zero Group Consulting
baustin@infinet.com
http://www.infinet.com/~baustin