Consensys Powerports board
alan denney
aland at informix.com
Wed Oct 17 10:38:31 AEST 1990
In article <1990Oct9.034535.11153 at cims2.uucp> kew at cims2.uucp (Keith Walker) writes:
>
>>Is anyone familiar with the POWERPORTS serial I/O card from Consensys
>>Corporation? The company says they've sold 10,000 of these. Surely
>
>I had an evaluation copy once. Real neat until you plugged in a modem.
>It just doesn't work with modems (temper that comment with the fact that
>I had the board about a year ago). About 6-8 months ago, Consensys came
>under heavy net flame for producing a product that didn't work with modems
>properly; last I heard they (Consensys) had sent their driver writers
>to SCO to get some lessons on how it's done.
Now, I'm *really* scared... [-:
>Keith Walker
What exact problem/symptoms did you run into? I haven't seen any
trouble yet. They told me up front when I ordered that they had
trouble in some cases driving Telebits from daughtercard ports,
but that mainboard ports were OK. What problems did you have?
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