Sure, BlueM will work with anything - but make sure you have TX, RX, CTS and RTS on the correct pins. Of course you need power as well. Thats maybe a little awkward. Maybe you need to wire a 9V battery to a 9 pin serial connector to mate up with the power plug.
steve On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Hiraghm <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering if the BlueM I use with my M100 could be adapted to work > with an old DOS laptop? I might get a second one if that's the case... > would be nice if it had a 9 pin instead of 25 pin, though, to save adapters > sticking out. > > In my closet I've got this old serial port to ethernet BNC adapter > (10mbit... it's ancient). It immediately got me to wondering if the thing > could be adapted to work with my M100. Not that I need it, with my BlueM. > But my brain works that way. > > I really need to get back to work on getting my BlueM-M100 talking to my > Android devices; I just don't have the time. I need to study the Virtual T > source, I guess, to figure out how to emulate a TPDD device... in this case > under Android. > My perfect solution is to use my phone as both a storage medium and > internet proxy, with additional capability of using my M100 as a bluetooth > keyboard. > > Does anybody know if any of the DOSBox for Android apps can emulate PC > serial ports via bluetooth? Because then we could run Desklink in DOSBox on > an Android phone. > Another question; could an M100 be connected via RS232 to a USB port on a > PC or Android device (via serial-to-usb cable, and in Android's case, OTG > adapter, I guess) and communicate? In some instances this might be > convenient, like when using the M100 as a keyboard for my Android tablet. > > I wish the printer port was bi-directional... but I'm rambling now... >
