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29 January 2002, 12:08 AM

Bravo2zero_sps

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Anybody know of such a product which would allow me to connect my usb pda cradle to the serial port on a machine running NT 4.0? I believe they exist but thought I would ask here. Also if they do exist, where from and how much???

I got a crappy Handspring visor but it was free!!! Run NT 4.0 on my work laptop and want to synch with my outlook. It is triple boot with 2000 and XP but can only have NT on the network to synch with outlook!

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29 January 2002, 12:16 AM

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Xircom and a few others make them. Try

http://www.netshop.co.uk/catmenu2.fw...sal+Serial+Bus

Might be best to ring up first, no idea if they will work with the Visor.

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29 January 2002, 07:57 AM

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Chris,I don't see how one of these adapters could work with NT4, as the system surely needs to know how to talk to the PDA, or whatever device properly in order to exchange data. When the USB is integrated in the motherboard, the native OS need the exact driver for the peripheral in order to talk to it. How could you do this with say, a Xircom device? I could only imagine USB peripheral-PC serial converters made on device by device basis with a unique driver for each adapter in order to talk to NT4 and that would be a fairly niche product.

Could be talking complete cod, but sounds strange to me......

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Nick