Fwd: [GreenKeys] USB/RS232

[Don Robert House]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Don Robert House <drhouse at nadcomm.com>
Date: 3 October 2005 10:48:21 PM CDT
To: Andreas Müller <dd1lm at t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] USB/RS232


Just to clarify...

National Instruments makes several interface cards that are made in  
the PCM/CIA card form factor and have a "dongle" that provides for  
EIA 232 or GPIB

Not real cheap but not real expensive either... and the best part is  
they support the products they make.  We had good results with them  
at my last engineering lab assignment.

Don
K9TTY


On 3 Oct 2005, at 1:14 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:

Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 19:04 schrieben Sie:

Hi everybody,
I want to thank all of you who tried to help me to get a laptop with  
RS232. I
looked on the german ebay pages too, but I made bad experiences  
buying PC
components at ebay. I will get a laptop with RS232 from a friend next  
week.
By the way, it appears to me quite expensive to get oner from  
overseas...
Thanks a lot
Andreas



> Some nice ones on eBay.  I have an old Toshiba I could send you but
> it has very limited memory and cannot run the latest XP
>
> Don
>
>
> On 3 Oct 2005, at 10:50 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just tried to buy a laptop with RS232 - it appears to be  
> impossible...
> I will get a used one.
> Andreas, DD1LM
>
> Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 15:18 schrieb WA5CAB at cs.com:
>
>
>> Byron,
>>
>> Best thing to do, even if a converter were available, is to return  
>> the
>> laptop and get one that does what you need it to do.  No point in
>> owning a
>> Jaguar when what you really needed was a Land Rover.
>>
>> In a message dated 10/3/2005 8:09:27 AM Central Daylight Time,
>>
>> roy.morgan at nist.gov writes:
>>
>>
>>> At 01:02 AM 10/2/2005, w6qne at earthlink.net wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a new laptop.NO  RS232 only USB.   What is the best  
>>>> converter
>>>> for USB to RS232.  I know that  there are a  lot of differences,
>>>> but I
>>>> need to support all of the protocall..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Byron,
>>>
>>>
>>
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