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Liquid Speed

    13-Dec-93 01:40:08
Sb: #71058-Liquid Speed
Fm: Don Landis 71673,3612
>>Just get a 1->4 parallel switchbox Not enough! I once worked out the solution for my situation. It took a 4x3x4 logic switcher. I have three dongles, two printers and two cpu's. In addition I figured a dedicated hard drive for the software that screwed up the sectors. No!, I shelved the software and use a simple A/B parallel switch for the dongles and have two cables hanging free and the 2-dongle set ready to plug in along with the single mixed gas dongle. The secret to convenience was having the DB25 pin jack located right by the monitor so I can work it like a patch bay or old fashioned telephone switch board. It's OK but I still feel silly having to go through this. I think I'd feel less silly spraying my system with RAID to prevent those little unexplained software extras that creep up, especially on 1.0 versions. <G>