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PCI Serial Crd for G5
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booboo
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May 10, 2004, 06:50 PM
 
There isn't one is there?

And I don't want to sacrifice the Internal Modem . . .
     
Detrius
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May 10, 2004, 08:56 PM
 
Serial technologies:

S-ATA
Firewire
USB
Apple's Old-School Serial Port
9 pin serial port
25 pin serial port

I'm assuming you are referring to Apple's Old-School Serial Ports. What could you possibly want to hook up to a G5 that requires a PCI card? If it's a laser printer, you need a localtalk-ethernet bridge.
ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
     
galarneau
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Oct 16, 2004, 11:04 PM
 
I was thinking about this as well the other day.

I've been messing around with *BSD and read that you can do headless installs by piping the output through the serial port instead of using a monitor. It's not a big deal for a PC where monitors are a dime a dozen, but for an old Sparc box that use funky monitors, it would be really handy to have a serial port.

Also, I was thinking of getting one of those Garmin Frontrunners for training, and it uses a serial port for sync'ing. If I had a serial port, I might be able to figure out the protocol and write some Cocoa software for it.

I see that Keyspan makes a PCI card with 4 Mac-type serial ports on it, so I wonder if a generic PC-type PCI card would work. You know it has to be like 10x cheaper than the Mac version.
     
az_matt
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Oct 17, 2004, 03:11 AM
 
Why bother with a PCI card? There are plenty of USB to serial port adapters available, just google it. All kinds of different port formats supported.

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Oct 18, 2004, 07:16 PM
 
One reason to want a serial card is to use a (legacy) MIDI interface.

USB got itself a pretty poor reputation for MIDI devices - sloppy timing, etc. USB to serial port adaptors don't cut it for this application - they're like a worst of both worlds scenario
     
   
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