USB to Serial on a DOS 6.2 system

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:37 am

Well since my laptop is older than me (i'm 15) is doesn't happen to have a USB slot (pity...) so I was wondering if there are any USB to Serial thingies somewhere floating around in space. It would make my life a bit easier.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:39 am

there are Serial to USB, but not USB to Serial. USB needs powered leads, and serial ports don't provide that.

your SOL.

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:19 pm

I hope it has PCMCIA if so then your not SOL

http://www.techadvice.com/info/item.asp ... &iid=16640

Hope this helps.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:57 pm

So you have a 486DX laptop? o_O

Wow - that should be in a museum.

I have 4 x brand new 486's (SX, DX and DX100) sitting inside little shadow-box picture frames, as art.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:45 pm

one of my college teachers has a 8086.... even has the parity BIOS chips. one is EVEN Parity and the other is ODD Parity.

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:11 pm

Naw, I'm not lucky enough to get a computer with a PCMA, was it?, in mine. It doesn't even have a headphone jack. O.o The thing about it that it has enough physical memory to bearily run Win 3.11 but the machine itself can't use that much...

Sory for bringing this thread back from the dead, during spring break I don't have much access to the net. When I orginally posted this thread I had biked *+ mi. to Hastings, MN from Hampton, MN. (Not just for that mind you.)

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:37 pm

What exactly do you need to be using USB for on a laptop that old? If you are talking a mouse or some other controller device, it's futile. If you are talking a USB hard drive for backing up files, you would have better luck pulling the hard drive out of the laptop and using an adapter to connect it directly to a desktop computer. There are even USB to IDE converters that have support for both desktop and laptop hard drives.