CNC software by Rev

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Jul 9 00:33:13 EDT 2004


Thomas-

Thursday, July 8, 2004, 7:12:50 PM, you wrote:

TMI> Mark M,
TMI> I don't know how related this might be but I have been playing with
TMI> robot controllers and X10 stuff for a while and also with Telescope
TMI> software. Anyway, One thing I have found for any serial devices is that
TMI> the key serial to usb issue is using the Kensington "High Speed" serial
TMI> adapter. I tried all kinds of other adapters for serial to USB but that
TMI> is the only one that works right. I also use Virtual PC and it 
TMI> recognizes the high speed serial adapter for my GPS etc....
TMI> The other adapters would work sometimes and others not and this lesson
TMI> was hard come by for me. FWIW

You're quite right about this. There's a significant difference in the
newer Keyspan adapters dealing with hardware handshaking. I think the
older devices were pretty limited in their control abilities (IIRC
only DTR could be toggled).

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net



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