No RS232 port alternative

[JamesBrown]

Something like this could work.

http://www.quatech.com/catalog/rs232_pcmcia.php

[fimmel]

what brand usb --> rs232 adapter are you using?

i have a parralax one and it only takes like 2 seconds more that our other programmer with a native serial port.

this is the one i have
http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28031

good luck

/forest

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

Something like this could work.

http://www.quatech.com/catalog/rs232_pcmcia.php

I advise caution with the Quatech cards. The connector between the actual card and the cable is crap. I have three of the Quatech 4 port cards (QSP-100) at work and they are all but useless. I can't keep the cables connected to the card. I also tried the Socket brand of PCMCIA to Serial and they are OK but buffer the data. I use them at work to collect field data from instruments and when your GPS time tag data is 5 minutes older than your instrument data it tends to cause problems later in processing. I have had no problems since switching to USB-RS232 converters from IOGear.