Consensys Powerports board

[alan denney]

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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