Re: RS232

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Aye - it's been years since 'Mac had serial (our old 'IIfx has one,
but that's fifteen years old now) ...

at first I couldn't believe Idratek were using it as their primary
linkage ... presumably they're driven by the norms of the PC / Windows
world ...

'hope it's a temporary aberation !


Chris



Tim Hawes wrote:

> The last PC I bought has only USB and ethernet ports - no serial or
> parallel
> in sight!
> No parallel I can live with as my laser printer also has ethernet, but
I
> need to resort to the USB-serial dongles for a couple of devices. I'm
> using
> an old bulky Belkin one at the moment - seems ok so far...
>
> Tim.
>
>
> On 3/2/06, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Tim -
> >
> > thanks ... sounds plausible !   I'm looking to buy somthing to
run 'XP,
> > and was thinking about my options ... serial connects are going
out of
> > fashion !
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim Hawes wrote:
> >
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > EIB used to have the same dislike of USB-Serial converters -
the bit I
> > > read on one of the websites stated it was a
"timing" issue or
> > > something or other. The EIB lot have now brought out a
direct USB
> > > adaptor so no more need for serial.
> > >
> > > Have you tried a different USB-Serial adaptor, or more
specifically
> > > another adaptor with a different chipset from the first?
Maybe it's a
> > > hardware specific problem.
> > >
> > > I might have a serial PCI card somewhere if you're really
stuck...
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Tim




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