[Kenwood] Old rs232 serial port

[John M. Trindle]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Edward B. Soriano, M.D. wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Noticed that serial ports of laptops ( I dont  know with desktops )
> now are replaced by USB ports instead of the older rs232. and most of
> our rigs need this older port for a cpu interface. Can anybody
> tell me how they managed this? Is there an adaptor that converts the
> rs232 to USB?
> The only adaptors I saw here are DB9 to din etc.
>

I've had extremely mixed results with USB->RS232 converters in my work
with hand-held data terminals.  Usually one or two programs work and the
rest don't (and the ones which do work vary by converter brand/model).
They are quite a bit more complicated than a simple wiring adapter.

A better solution for a laptop would be a PCMCIA serial port card.

 > Edward B. Soriano MD > 4F1OZ also W3DOC

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