Author: James T. Walker
Date: 14:02:28 01/04/06
Not sure if anyone is interested but I finally found a solution to the problem with new computers having only USB ports and no RS232 serial ports to run auto232 games. I found a PCI card that provides a RS232 serial port. It is made my Startech which can be found on the internet. Their suggested price of around $51 is higher than the $40 I paid today at a local Electronics store. The model number of the card is PCI1S550 which provides one serial port. They also make cards to provide more ports if you need them. Now that I can run auto232 games again by connecting my old XP2400 to my new 64x2/3800+ I'm not sure why I want to. :-) Running eng/eng matches on a dual core computer with each program having it's own cpu is much cleaner and simpler than auto232. I just couldn't let the problem go untill I found a solution for it. :-) Jim
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