Interface Question
Sep 20, 2004, 02:20 PM
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I've got a really old laptop that's just sitting around. Only problem with it is, there's not an appropriate port to plug the serial cable into, as there is with a friend's Dell. I was wondering if adapting it to use the printer com port was do-able and if I could just snag up an adaptor like that at Best Buy or something.
Sep 20, 2004, 02:24 PM
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You would have to have a terminal emulator that works off of paralel port. It's too complicated. Do you have USB ports or is the machine older than the USB standard?
Sep 21, 2004, 09:19 AM
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Here's a funny ending to my dilemma. I got to really poking around that laptop, and on the underside, there's a little switch. So I flip it and a side panel opened, revealing - you guessed it- , the proper port! How about that? And here I was all bewildered by it just having a printer/monitor port in the back.
Problem solved!
Problem solved!
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