Hi there, my boss has just asked me a question, and I need to know the answer soon.

I was hoping someone here can help me.

I have to do a VB program, which will read in information from a set of scales via the RS232 COM?) port.

Problem is, that there are 6 - 8 scales that have to be connected at one time to the back of the PC - Is this possible via some sort of device, Can you have 6 COM ports on the back of a pc?


In VB, can you have several instances of the MSComm active x, one to communicate with each COM port?

I hope this is clear, and I hope you can give me some advice as to the feasibility of this project........

Many thanks.