Re: [Thinkpad] Re: USB and Serial ports and GPS

It is almost impossible to get a Socket IO card to work under DOS in a
ThinkPad.
There are MANY USB to everything adaptors out there, but there are legacy
programs and devices that NEED a REAL com port and floppy. Period, can't get
around it
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aryeh Goretsky" <goretsky@adelphia.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Cc: "Bill - ThinkPads dot Com" <bill@thinkpads.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:35 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: USB and Serial ports and GPS

> Hello,
>
> Socket Communications offers single, dual and quad-port RS-232 PC Card
> (16-bit PCMCIA) adapters which support Windows 95B and later as well as
> Windows CE. The single-port RS-232 PC Card supports DOS as well. Their
> URL is <http://www.socketcom.com/>.
>
> Quatech offers single, dual, and quad-port RS-232CPC Card PC Card (16-
> bit PCMCIA) adapters which support Windows 95 and later, Linux and OS/2.
> Their URL is <http://www.quatech.com/>.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aryeh Goretsky
>
>
> At 04:51 PM 9/30/2003, you wrote:
> >Message: 6
> >Reply-To: "Bill - ThinkPads dot Com" <bill@thinkpads.com>
> >From: "Bill - ThinkPads dot Com" <bill@thinkpads.com>
> >To: "David Reid" <dwreid@hiwaay.net>, <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] USB and Serial ports and GPS
> >Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:35:12 -0400
> >
> >without having looked for such, i'll bet that there are
> >serial to PCMCIA cards as well as serial to USB adapters..
> >cyberguys might be a good place to start..
> >
> >
> >*******************
> >Cordially,
> >Bill Morrow
> >(from NetFinity Server)
> >web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
> >bill@thinkpads.com
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "David Reid" <dwreid@hiwaay.net>
> >To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:48 AM
> >Subject: [Thinkpad] USB and Serial ports and GPS
> >
> >
> > > With all the recent talk on the T40 not having a standard
> >serial port,
>
> [...snip...]
>
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