Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot numbered?

[John G. Heim]

I always buy Asus mobos and they always have a serial header. The adapter
you need is available from cables2go for about $10.  My department always
buys from Dell and they always come with the serial  port DB9 port on the
back. So for me, it hasn't been a problem using my serial hardware synth.

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Subject: Re: Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot
numbered?

Well, they may be, but not quite yet.  As John Covici pointed out, you can
get cables and brackets to extend the serial headers on your mother board,
if it has them.

On the other hand, if you have an old isa card, and are in the market to buy
a new computer, there are still companiesout there that make computers with
both isa and pci slots, you just have to look for them. 
One that I found while doing a search is Nixsys Open Systems.  Their web
site is nixsys.com, where you will find a link for isa slot computers. 
They come in both short tower and rack mount configurations.  Hope this
helps.

Gene

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