Yes I have used a lot of the PCMCIA ones on my DELL/IBM Thinkpad laptops over the last 10 years. The laptops come with one serial port, but I use the PCMCIA card to give me one or 2 more for FSK, rotator control, PA control etc
I use the socket communications Inc versions, see http://www.socketserial.com/support/Cards/CFandPC%20Card%20Datasheet.pdf. Some of their older version single and dual PCMCIA serial cards (circa 1997) have been going for as little as $5 each recently Dave ww2r ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:40:33 -0600 From: David Christ <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] An alternate to USB/Serial converter? To: elecraft <[email protected]> Message-ID: <p06240858c7c6b679c...@[10.0.1.3]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The slots/ports on laptops seem to be an ever changing thing, but has anyone tried to use something like these to avoid the USB converter? PCMCIA http://www.ramelectronics.net/computer-parts/computer-i-o-cards/serial-port- cards/io-cbs220/prodIOCBS220.html David K0LUM ______________________________________________________________ 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
