Serial-USB
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I have bought two Serial-USB adapters. That is, the adapters which allow
to connect serial devices (like Palm Pilot cradles) to modern computers
which have USB ports but no serial ones.

Unfortunately I  still have not managed  to make the serial  port of my
Blackbird (the POWER9  computer) work. So I'm using the  adapter on all
my modern devices.

I have  several of  these things: an  original Palm-branded  one (which
still works on PowerPC Apple  computers) and some unbranded devices. It
seems that there is an universal  rule: they all works on Linux without
issues but they refuse to work on the  W10 (I even have a new driver CD
with"W10  drivers" but  it makes  no difference)  The Palm-branded  one
seems  to make  on Apples  very well  (OK, I  first have  to start  the
HotSync daemon  and only,  and only,  then connect  the adapter  to the
compute) but  it is not so  reliable on Linuxes. But  even the cheapest
unbranded adapter woks perfectly for me on any Linux I have tested.

I  must  say  that  it  makes  difference  to  have  the  PDA  directly
connected to  my desktop.  I have  traditionally used  my SGI  for Palm
synchronization but it made impossible to  sync things at work (where I
have no SGI, of course).


Written on the TRGpro with the LandWare GoType keyboard.