[re: earlier discussion in same thread]

Sounds like I'm wrong about 57.6 - I can't remember where I picked that
piece of info up from.


>> i don't know what company makes them, but you can buy something called a
>> hurdler card for the mac... it gives you 4 230k serial ports. there is also
>> an external scsi-based version. they're made mainly for bbb uses...
>
>CSI makes the Hurdler and Hustler.  They sent me a 2-port card,
>but no programming docs.  They stalled on the programming info.
>I am talking to Digiboard, though and they are ready to send me a
>card and programming info.  Their cards are much more pricey, but
>appear to be higher quality, from what I can tell from spec.
>sheets.
>
>The CSI card looks pretty easy to reverse-engineer, but their
>"license agreement" forbids it.

Interestingly, many such agreements are in violation of international law,
and therefore in valid.  Certainly in the UK a piece of computer software
may always be reverse engineered for the purpose of writing software
compatible with it, irrespective of the license agreement the publishers
try to put on you.  I suspect the same applies in the US, and that it also
applies in firmware cases like this.

Jules

>
>-allen
>
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