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USB to Serial on a DOS 6.2 system
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:37 am
by d3jake
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:39 am
by fliptw
there are Serial to USB, but not USB to Serial. USB needs powered leads, and serial ports don't provide that.
your SOL.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:19 pm
by Canuck
I hope it has PCMCIA if so then your not SOL
http://www.techadvice.com/info/item.asp ... &iid=16640
Hope this helps.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:57 pm
by Mobius
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:45 pm
by AceCombat
one of my college teachers has a 8086.... even has the parity BIOS chips. one is EVEN Parity and the other is ODD Parity.
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:11 pm
by d3jake
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.)
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:37 pm
by Krom
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.