I can't remember the name of the device(s), but back in the days of BBS's
(and before the internet was known among the populace), privately-owned
DOS-based machines were frequently used to run dial-in "Bulletin Board
Systems" (BBS's).
Perhaps I'm just dating myself here if I'm the only one that remembers such
a thing. I'm 35....am I really that old? ;-)
Anyway, I never ran such a beast, but I do know that those who did had
these multi-plexing things that gave them multiple serial ports...to which
they hooked up multiple modems. 10...16...24...32...all of that was both
possible and common. And it ran on DOS using BBS software like Wildcat!
and DLX.
I *think* it was run off of a card in the PC that came out to a multi-port
device. The only question is whether such a thing is made for a PC-card
that can run from a laptop.
Alternately, perhaps a USB hub could take multiple USB-to-Serial Port
adapters and there you'd have multiple Serial ports. But the problem there
would be that DOS does not recognize USB (perhaps there's a DOS driver that
could do so, but I doubt anyone's bothered to do such a thing).
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