Re: What...are THESE??

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On 9 Jun., 22:39, ]3ob <bob [ @ ] onemanband.com> wrote:
> On 2009-06-09 15:14:13 -0400, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> said:
> >
> > Because of the potting, I'd bet it's a "dongle" required to allow
> > a relatively expensive application program to run.
>
> Is it possible for a serial card (dual port or not) to require a
> dongle?  What would it need one for, it's just a serial card.  Uber
> baud rates?

The dongle is not for the serial card but the (expensive) software
license.
I can imagine that it is some exotic data acquisition software,
perhaps something with an external measuring instrument.

However, I find it unusual to bundle such an expensive software
with an exotic serial card *and* a hardware dongle.

Another possibility would be some kind of processing card.
As the card isn't very large I can only come up with some
kind of number cruncher without its own memory.

bye
Marcus