[Coco] Drive wire Trouble in Illinois

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Tue Sep 23 21:42:34 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 20:36 -0500, John T Chasteen wrote:
> I'm in big trouble trying to get Drive wire installed

> Any suggestions? I have com ports on the 486 16bit system
> but only have USB ports on my Vista PC

Get a Keyspan or something similar, usually like $10 which uses an FT232
or one of its relatives to bridge USB to RS-232.  I'm assuming Drivewire
is a Win32 program - not a DosBox console app - so the Win32
communications API will handle the low-level RS-232 driver details and
it'll work.

C.





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