[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

Ryan Pritchard coconut at pritchard.ca
Wed Mar 4 17:54:56 EST 2009


I presume you mean a test of the way cheap dongle on the PC communicating at
115200 bps with your serial BT adapter on the CoCo.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:

> 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<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%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50>
>
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Ryan Pritchard
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