<DIV>I just built up a car P4 system with TWO serial ports, one on the back and one on a header on the MB. The MINI-ATX Mother board is a MSI P4MAM2-V available from newegg for $42. I used a now cheep P4 2.4GHz. The mother also has built in VGA, 5 ch sound, 10-100 net, par. I put this in a very small box and will power it from a 12VDC, 200Watt power supply available from another source. email back if you want more info. 73, Shanon KA8SPW (Garden City, Michigan)<BR><BR><B><I>KC2MMi <kc2mmi@verizon.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Tyler-<BR><BR>> Can anyone point to a source of single-<BR>> board PC's with 2 serial ports, and sound<BR>> card that comes with WIndows<BR><BR>Probably not. Serial ports have officially been obsoleted by all the major<BR>vendors. While you can buy a which still supports one legacy serial port,<BR>the computer makers just can't justify the cost of including TWO of them and<BR>bumping out other ports that buyers want instead. Sound cards also are<BR>obsolete, almost all of the computers sold in the past five years have<BR>on-board sound chips. Again, a matter of cost. You might find a source of<BR>legacy *boards* but whole computers with an OS? Good luck.<BR><BR>What you'll find on a new machine is one or no serial port, and an on-board<BR>sound chip. I'd suggest you look for the cheapest system that matches this<BR>and your other criteria, and then order serial port cards to
add to them.<BR>Depending on your source and quantity, the serial port cards will cost you<BR>$5-10 each, and you'll save a lot more than that, compared to trying to find<BR>the high-end systems that might ship with dual serial ports in them. A<BR>single-board PC with dual serial ports? Gonna cost you, if you can find it.<BR>They just aren't commodity goods any more in today's market.<BR><BR>Cheap new machines will probably ship only with Windows XP/Home, that's MS's<BR>cheapest OS these days.<BR><BR>If you can live with older used machines, try calling leasing companies.<BR>They usually have hundreds of "exact same" computers coming off 3-year<BR>business leases, some of those might have different OSes if you don't need a<BR>current one.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>aprssig mailing list<BR>aprssig@lists.tapr.org<BR>https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>