I don't know what you consider affordable. A number of alternatives are available and the price is $40 or less. I use USB/serial converters for a similar situation.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:33 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: USB has replaced serial Well it looks like it's official, Palm's complete lineup of currently shipping Palms all have USB only. This is very bad news for people like me. I have customers calling up saying they can't find a compatible Palm because my product needs a serial port. Looks like Palm will put me out of business unless I can find a solution. I have toyed around with BT some. Not a good option as it's pretty slow compared to the wired connection. (the one byte req, one byte resp has a lot of overhead, I'm guessing, when over BT) Cost is another issue since my products use non-standard baud rates, I cannot use an 'off the shelf' BT to serial converter. Has anyone come up with an affordable USB periferal to RS232 adapter? I briefly looked into this a while ago and the chipsets were very expensive. Thanks, Mike -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
