[GLLUG] Additional Serial & Parallel Ports

[Jeff Lawton]

Your best source would be the Internet. The only places locally that I 
would even consider calling would be  Digilink in Okemos and Discount PC 
on South Cedar for something like that.
On 09/30/2012 11:18 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
> I wanted to use both a serial and a parallel port on my desktop PC, 
> but it's new enough that it has neither.  I found several PCI cards on 
> Newegg that have serial and parallel ports.  However, in my 
> motherboard manual it appears there are internal plugs for cables on 
> the motherboard for one of each port.
>
> Would a PCI card interfere with the motherboard's ports?  Is there any 
> reason it wouldn't work with Linux?
>
> Are there cables that can connect to the motherboard and some external 
> ports that are simply mounted on something like those metal covers for 
> the PCI slots?
>
> Does anyone know of a cheap, local source for these devices?
>
> Thanks.

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Jeff Lawton
Ideal Solution, LLC
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jeff at idealso.com
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