Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[Doc Shipley]

John Foust wrote:
> 
> I recently tried a Belkin USB-to-serial and a second brand (Amb-something)
> on my Win2000 box in hopes of delivering an extra serial port for
> my old Palm III.  No go!  Both blue-screened when Palm Desktop
> tried to access the serial port.  I suspect that either my motherboard
> USB is blown or the drivers didn't like a dual-processor machine.

   Try Keyspan.  Depending on what you need, they go reasonably cheaply 
on eBay.  I've used one to provide VTserver, and have quite a few 
friends who use theirs for console access to Sparcs, RS/6000, and Alphas 
from portless laptops.

> There are PCMCIA to serial adapters, no?  And we'll be able to
> insert PCI serial cards as long as PCI is around.  

   Be very careful - look up some user experiences - with the PCI serial 
adapters.  Some of them are very Windows-only.


	Doc