At 11:37 AM 29/11/2012, you wrote:
>I have some USB boxes made by Pearl(e?) that have 8 DB9 ports. They work f=
ine.
>
>Joe

This guy looks like a pretty good deal.. buy two and have a spare.

http://www.digital-loggers.com/ss20.html?gclid=3DCPnZ5LTQ9LMCFUWo4AodR1cAdw

p.s. According to the manual, this switch only switches pins 2 and 3=20
on the ports..
which is enough for a lot of devices, but may not be for your lathes=20
since hardware
handshaking is ignored.

--sp


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