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Re: Dead serial ports?



A.J. wrote:

The only solution that I can think of is to purchase a USB-to-serial
converter, which will give you a DB9 serial port (and sometimes an
8-pin mini-DIN port as well).  Here's one:

Thanks, I'll try this first.

> Keep in mind that PC applications that communicate with the serial
> port using IRQ 3 and 4 will not work with the converter.  (At least,
> that's what I heard anyway...)

Well, it's a start. Perhaps XP will do better.

Cheers,
Mike T.