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...
>

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