[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Roger Taylor 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_W0Q
>QitemZ380108270824QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item38010827082
>4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1308|
>301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

Humm, wish I had known that, but these are already ordered.  Sigh.

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