-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:18:40 -0400, Jim Fron > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Aug 7, 2005, at 2:46 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: >> >> >>>Floppy drives and diskettes are notorious for failing in very strange >>>and unusual ways. Check out the mild but insightful message from Art >>>on tech@ if you want to know the general consensus on floppies. >> >>That's good to know. Unfortunately, most of my machines (mac) don't >>have serial ports. > > > At times I wonder if Apple not supporting serial is smart or dumb but > I never seem to come to a conclusion... > > A USB to serial device may do the trick but personally, I've never > tried it.
I've used the iogear usb > serial adapter with my powerbook, a sparcstation 5, minicom from darwinports and a null modem cable and it worked fine. iD8DBQFC94IglH10NsAbJ7ERAtT6AJ9ybLXdLe9ee6xFqBE6m6bFngsazgCdG04B 3bY14tyU2IbM29IbMWS0Nt4= =/HXo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
