San Jose, California-based IDE controller and peripheral company Promise Technology Inc says it has the first peripheral port expansion card to support all types of PC peripherals currently popular. I/O Max, a 16-bit ISA card costing $40, adds a second set of high-speed serial I/O ports, one bi-directional EPP/ECP parallel port and one IDE port for PCI, VESA or ISA-based PCs. The package includes an expanded choice of device addresses and settings to avoid conflicts at installation with a PC’s existing serial and parallel ports. The card enables IDE devices such as removable drives, CD-ROMS and take back-ups from the likes of Iomega, Syquest, Imation and Mitsubishi to be connected up alongside parallel port drives, backups and printers, and communications devices such as modems, digitizers and pointing devices. It works with MS-DOS 5.0 up to Windows NT.
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