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I have a dive computer which uses parallel cable or serial to download info to computer. XP does not support the parallel connection, so for XP, must use serial. Just purchased a IBM laptop that has NO serial port.
Is there any driver available to support the parallel cable download on XP?????
Is there a reliable serial to parallel adapter on the market?
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 18:06:02 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?U0FC?=
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I have a dive computer which uses parallel cable or serial to download info to computer. XP does not support the parallel connection, so for XP, must use serial. Just purchased a IBM laptop that has NO serial port.
>
>Is there any driver available to support the parallel cable download on XP?????
>
>Is there a reliable serial to parallel adapter on the market?
>
>Any suggesstions???
>
>Thanks in advance
Use google to find the free userport.zip, which is a small
application you run that gives user level access to the parallel
port on XP/2K/NT machines. This may allow your parallel port
software to run as usual. You can get usb serial port adapters
like below and use on the notebook if it has a usb port.
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