Dave,
You can buy a serial port adapter card for about $10-$15 bucks (maybe less now)
if I recall. I have a few of them laying around here. The cards take a whole 5
minutes at the most to install if you have a quick-remove side on your PC. If
the whole top comes off, maybe 7-8 minutes and your in business. I know you can
get them here at Office Depot and mail order them from everywhere. There's
still a huge number of industrial control PC's still being made using serail
ports. The only reason for their failing popularity is the way mice are
supplied anymore. Myself, I prefer them where the connector has screws to hold
it secure and wont pull out easily like this new stuff. That may be the reason
they're using them for the amp? On my Compaq, I have both but the serial port
is in the back. The two USB ports are in the front under a flip-over lid.
However this Compaq is modified greatly from the stock, especially with ME
removed ASAP after I got it.
Best,
Will
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On 9/17/05 at 11:34 PM David Kirkby wrote:
>Keith Dutson wrote:
>> That is encouraging to see, David. Hopefully we will still have serial
>port
>> accessories for quite a few more years.
>
>
>> I just hope amateur radio product
>> manufacturers convert to a more modern interface before all support is
>gone.
>>
>> 73, Keith NM5G
>
>I am sure the ham radio market will switch to the more modern
>interfaces, and be quite happy to sell you another rig/amp or whatever
>when the "modern" interface becomes defunct.
>
>That sort of thing would not be tolerated so easily in the professional
>market, which is no doubt why professional grade items tend to come with
>RS-232, and home items with USB.
>
>If professional items need the bandwidth that RS-232 can't provide, they
>will normally use GPIB or ethernet.
>
>
>--
>David Kirkby,
>G8WRB
>
>Please check out http://www.g8wrb.org/
>of if you live in Essex http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/
>
>
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