[Motorola] Serial/USB adapter and RSS?

[Coote, Jay]

Thanks.  Maybe I'll hang onto the flaky old Compaq.  It boots up on a DOS
menu for RSS (Saber/Quantar/Spectra)
and can run Win98 for the CPS.  If I tried that in a new PC without a serial
port, I don't think the old RSS
would talk to the USB.  
Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: tvsjr [mailto:tvsjr@sprynet.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:35 PM
To: motorola@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Motorola] Serial/USB adapter and RSS?


Absolutely. I've heard that the Socket PC card serial ports will work, but 
I wouldn't trust it. Buy a laptop with a real serial port - my Dell 
Latitude C840 has one as do most Dells, and a friend's IBM ThinkPad T40 has 
one.

Keep in mind that, depending on what RSS you're trying to run, some of it 
doesn't like newer, faster machines. You may be better off picking up an 
old 486 laptop somewhere for your RSS needs, then get a new, fast laptop 
for normal use and for CPS. I believe CPS will work fine with a USB-serial 
adapter, but I'd still be wary...


At 12:27 PM 01/22/2004 -0800, you wrote:
 >I may be migrating to a notebook PC for my Motorola RSS (both old DOS and
 >new Windows versions).
 >The RIB box requires a serial port connection. Some notebooks don't have a
 >serial port.
 >
 >Are there problems in using a USB to serial adapter for this?