A Word About Com Ports And Irqs - 3Com 000839-08 Manual

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You'll need these items from your
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Sportster modem box:
modem
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Connections CD
Plus:
a screwdriver (not included)
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phone cord
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A Word about COM Ports
and IRQs
Most computer accessories — a mouse,
sound card, enhanced graphics card, scanner,
etc. — require a special connection through
which they can communicate with the
computer. For some devices, this connection is
called a communications (or COM) port. Most
computers have 1 or 2 COM ports, but they
can have up to 4. Although internal modems
do not connect to COM ports directly, they do
require a COM port setting, which is
determined by the setting on the modem's
COM jumper pins.
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