[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

[Ryan Pritchard]

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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