Actually, Jim, your T41 did have a serial port on its mother board. It just wasn't exposed through a chassis connector. If you plug it into its docking station or port extender, you have a DB9 real serial port. Ditto the T61.
/Rick On 3/22/10, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:09:43 -0700, Garry Shapiro wrote: > > > >Tom, NW6P has a new K3 and a "modern" laptop with no serial port, > > > About seven years ago, I bought a Quatech DSP-100 PC-card for my IBM T41 > Thinkpad that came without a serial port. It provides two real hardware > serial ports from 16750 UARTS. It's been through a lot of Field Days and > lots of operation at home. Not cheap, but works great, no RFI issues. No > issues with any software. Lowest cost place to buy it is B&B Electronics, > which is in a small town about 100 miles WSW of Chicago. There used to be a > > great hamfest there. B&B is a great vendor of computer interface products > for > professional users. > > > http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp?FamilyId=23&Trail=2&TrailType=Top > > http://www.bb-elec.com/bb-elec/literature/quatech_pcmcia.pdf > > I just bought another one, AND one of the quad port interfaces so I can > play > with SO2R dual RTTY decoding. > > > BTW -- another way to get a real hardware serial port is with a port > replicator or docking station. These can often be found for cheap from > various sources. I have a couple of port replicators for my Thinkpads. They > also provide additional audio I/O. > > 73, > > Jim K9YC > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ 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
