"Ray" writes:

A lot of pmcia serial card and especially usb to serial cards wont work for
all applications.

The Eigar serial port works like an original port, and drivers are available
for Dos and Windows. I f you have a dinosaur application, you may need it
to work in DOS.

At least one of the applications is genuinely Windows compatible.

The other is a terminal emulator and while I'm currently using an ancient
copy of Procomm Plus, and terminal emulator that has certain terminal types
included in its database will be fine. But since COM1 can be the built in
port, that really doesn't matter.

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