Bought these (retro) hardware today

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It's the first time I'm seeing a computer with 4 serial ports instead of just 2 (or less) and the option in the BIOS to configure 2 more. Could it be that those were used to control the packaging hardware?

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devius wrote on Today, 16:57:

It's the first time I'm seeing a computer with 4 serial ports instead of just 2 (or less) and the option in the BIOS to configure 2 more. Could it be that those were used to control the packaging hardware?

I'd bet that is right yes. Although COM4 is apparently shared with the touchscreen, not sure if that would impact this kind of usage?

When I collected the seller (who also had all kinds of old oscilloscopes, hifi equipment etc) had a second one of these. That had a custom connector that looked like a 8 pin version of the green pluggable screw terminal things, in place of the audio connectors. Obviously I wanted the audio! But I guess those were for an even more bespoke industrial connection?

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