serial cable

serial cable

[Juan Hernandez]

I have a speakout, does anyone know of a device that will allow my speakout to connect to two computers via serial port?

I know it has a parallel port,, and I am using that for the other computer, but winxp has issue with the parallel port. 

thanks

Re: serial cable

[Garry Turkington]

You can get a mechanical serial switch box.  Plug the serial device into
it and then connect the box to as many PCs as it has outputs.  I use one
of these to share my Dectalk Express amongst my machines.  Also likely to
need a few male-female serial converters depending on the kit.

I replaced my old 2-way with a new 4-way about 6 months ago so they are
still on sale.

Regards,
Garry

-- 
Garry Turkington
garry.turkington@kycor.org.uk

Re: serial cable

[Juan Hernandez]

where didyou get yours?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Turkington" <garry.turkington@acm.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: serial cable


> 
> You can get a mechanical serial switch box.  Plug the serial device into
> it and then connect the box to as many PCs as it has outputs.  I use one
> of these to share my Dectalk Express amongst my machines.  Also likely to
> need a few male-female serial converters depending on the kit.
> 
> I replaced my old 2-way with a new 4-way about 6 months ago so they are
> still on sale.
> 
> Regards,
> Garry
> 
> -- 
> Garry Turkington
> garry.turkington@kycor.org.uk
> 
> 
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Re: serial cable

[Garry Turkington]

Hi,

I bought my serial switch at Maplins in the UK before I left there - it's
sort of a Radio Shack but where one assistant at least is usually
approaching competent.  Google for manual serial switch or similar
keywords and you should find some web retailer or another.  Just avoid the
remote terminal serial switches which are using similar terminology but
probably cost thousands of times as much.  That should make them easier to
spot and give a wide berth to.

Garry

-- 
Garry Turkington
garry.turkington@kycor.org.uk

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Juan Hernandez wrote:

> where didyou get yours?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garry Turkington" <garry.turkington@acm.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: serial cable
>
>
> >
> > You can get a mechanical serial switch box.  Plug the serial device into
> > it and then connect the box to as many PCs as it has outputs.  I use one
> > of these to share my Dectalk Express amongst my machines.  Also likely to
> > need a few male-female serial converters depending on the kit.
> >
> > I replaced my old 2-way with a new 4-way about 6 months ago so they are
> > still on sale.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Garry
> >
> > --
> > Garry Turkington
> > garry.turkington@kycor.org.uk
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
>
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