I have noticed that most motherboards still have a serial port if the user provides the jack.
Dick WO1I #911 At 01:53 PM 8/31/2010, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: >There are PCI-X multiserial cards available that plug into the forward >section of PCIx16 video slots. These are readily available and PCIx16 >is not going away anytime soon being a very popular video format. The >demise of serial ports is overstated. Thankfully the serial port is >not being pushed by new game designers, extending speed and changing >behavior to suit a new game every other week like USB. Worry about >this interface when video card people give up on PCIXnn slots. >Industrial users are interested in spending money on new equipment and >then using it for free for twenty or thirty years. It is the >extremely expensive industrial peripheral equipment that will keep >serial ports in use for another decade or two. If it costs them >money, industrial users would just as soon Microsoft walked off a >cliff. Their engineers are really nasty about spending money based on >someone else's consumer-grade eye-candy. There's >hope-you-will-buy-my-new-gizmo salesmen TRYING to drive a market, and >there's financial reality. > >There is a REASON why TV graphics are confined to a 4x3 box on a high >def 16x9 presentation of a sports game. MOST people are watching on a >converter ahead of a 4x3 box. My wife has our 16x9 TV in the game >room on the PS3. According to her, I have to wait for the big 31 inch >4x3 to fail before putting up a 50 inch in the living room. The set >has a super-video input fed with a digital converter that has S-video >out, and it is actually very sharp. The marketeers don't want you to >know what you can so with S-video and a converter box. They don't >want you to know about serial ports either. No volume in it. No >money. > >Wierdness with my K3 connected to my computer went away when I quit >using USB in favor of a PCIX serial card. I picked serial 1 and 2 >which are assigned by the OS at bootup, not juggled in the air, >depending on whatever in the USB way. A whole bunch of now and then >weirdness that would never trouble-shoot just went away and the serial >ports just run. No wheezes, no dropouts, no weirdness, no drop >connects, no freezeups, no nuthin. Just run. What a concept. > >These are cheap cards. Do a google search on "PCIX serial card". >Over 1.8 million hits. Many manufacturers. > >73, Guy. > >On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:08 PM, G. Beat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > There are Ethernet (TCP/IP) terminal servers supporting at least > one RS-232 port > > > > as well as additional A/D lines readily available on market for > less then $100 (proper qty). > > > > Some even support two RS-232 ports. > > > > > > > > Just need to look at inside cover of Circuit Cellar monthly magazine or > > > > a recent issue of Elector magazine (now available in the USA) > > > > > > > > The chips are inexpensive -- typical radio amateur knowledge to > use them -- rare ! > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > w9gb > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:00:05 AM > > Subject: Give us a network interface (Wayne Burdick) > > > > > > > > As long as PCs have USB ports, and as long as there are USB to RS232 > > adapters available, then the K2, K3, and other rigs having RS232 > > control will be 100% supported. No one need worry about installing an > > RS232 card in their computer. > > > > Future Elecraft products will have additional I/O options, possibly > > including USB and/or Ethernet, but I can't make predictions beyond that. > > > > It is also possible for the K3's present digital daughter board to be > > replaced with one having USB, Ethernet, or a combination of I/O ports. > > We might look at this. Of course we would continue to offer the > > existing unit, with RS232, as long as there is a need for it. > > > > Thanks for all your thoughts on the matter. > > > > 73, > > Wayne > > N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
