USB-serial adaptors

[Mark Tapley]

At 0:02 -0500 6/3/09, John Foust wrote:
>I think there has been other threads here regardng the hit-or-miss
>nature of these USB-to-serial adapters.  I know when I needed one
>to sync a Palm, I couldn't find one that did it right.  I think
>I hit my head against three $30 adapters to no avail, but this
>was four-five years ago.

I have no experience with these, but have a strong recommendation 
from Tim Lindner, who helped develop a serial file-server for Tandy 
Color Computers:

At 8:46 -0700 4/12/09, tim lindner wrote:
>Be on the lookout for a device that contains an FTDI chipset. Boisy and
>I agree they are the best USB <-> RS232 devices.

For whatever it's worth. My question was how I could get my Mac 
Powerbook G4 to serve files to my Color Computer 3; I have not 
ordered Drivewire yet, but I probably should do that soon.
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