re increasing the number of serial ports in article apr bmers bnr ca slang bnr ca steven langlois wrote does anyone know if there are any devices available for the mac which will increase the number of serial ports available for use simultaneously i would like to connect up to serial devices to my mac for an application i am working on i must be able to access each one of the independently if such a device exists are there are any limits to the number of serial devices i can use any information is appreciated steven langlois slang bnr ca the quadralink by ae is a possibly problematical solution to your needs i ve used one for the last years on my personal system but a fatal bug has crept into their more recent s w the bug only shows up during heavy serial traffic but completely crashes the system macsbug can not reboot time to hit the restart button ae told me in january that they were aware of and working on fixing the bug which i described to them since then they have not answered any of my faxes asking them for a status of the bug fix the ql has been great but for now i have mine sidelined if you are only going to be using baud or less then you may have no or very infrequent problems sven
