[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:15 PM 3/4/2009, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Mike Pepe wrote:
> >>Roger,
>[...]
> >I haven't found a ush<->bluetooth gismo yet Roger but I'm still looking, I
> >need to get rid of the direct wire as mother nature has blown some usb
> >extension cabling already, and I can't think of a better way to get good
> >isolation than this pack of yours.
>PS:
>Just ordered 2 of these:
><http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=USBG-
>BLUE-20&cats=158&catid=661%2C123%2C158>
>
>which are said to be class 1 devices.  Are they suitable? I figure I can put
>one on the laptop too.\


Yes, that one looks as good as any.  The IOGear dongle that Wal-Mart 
pushes it also good (I also have that one), but then I just plugged a 
$2.98 dongle into a new XP SP3 mini laptop and it worked right off, 
no driver CD or web searching.  I took the laptop out in the yard 
while my daughter typed on the CoCo in my office and she repeated 
back what I was typing, answered some silly questions, etc.  That's 
not what I call official testing but it was good for starters.  This 
is with a 115200 bps connection.  I repeat... this was a test of the 
cheap $2.98 dongle, not my pak.

Here is that particular dongle.   It came in QUICK and the shipping 
was free.  In other words, whoever this Hong Kong seller is, he's 
doing it for the numbers, not the profits.

http://cgi.ebay.com/100M-2-4G-USB-2-0-BLUETOOTH-DONGLE-V2-EDR-PC-ADAPTER_W0QQitemZ380108270824QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item380108270824&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1308|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50


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Roger Taylor

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