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PCI Serial Crd for G5
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
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There isn't one is there?
And I don't want to sacrifice the Internal Modem . . .
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Asheville, NC
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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.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Canastota, New York
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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.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Alexandria, VA
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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.
Matthew
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
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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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