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<blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 494978" data-attributes="member: 8133"><p>I wouldn't be supprised if some of the stuff you needed to run was legacy 16bit stuff?. I bet a lot of the kit you interface to does so over a 9pin serial port and the best thing would be a laptop that still had such a port without needing a USB dongle, and all the hastle that can involve with many out that there using counterfit chips that the vender of the official one tries to break....</p><p></p><p>Certainly a lot of fire alarm panels upto almost current still have a serial interface, USB is coming in with newer ones, but I'm not sure whether or not its altually a good idea.... these days, if you come across some early 90s kit, then you could probably deal with it with using an older laptop and usb to serial converter, even if you had to run windows 98 to do it, at a real push, you could get an older pc set up and talking to it, and with a decent scope with serial decode, reverse enginner the requried commands and come up with a replacement app.</p><p></p><p>In 30 years time, what will we be able to do with the USB stuff they make today?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phoenix, post: 494978, member: 8133"] I wouldn't be supprised if some of the stuff you needed to run was legacy 16bit stuff?. I bet a lot of the kit you interface to does so over a 9pin serial port and the best thing would be a laptop that still had such a port without needing a USB dongle, and all the hastle that can involve with many out that there using counterfit chips that the vender of the official one tries to break.... Certainly a lot of fire alarm panels upto almost current still have a serial interface, USB is coming in with newer ones, but I'm not sure whether or not its altually a good idea.... these days, if you come across some early 90s kit, then you could probably deal with it with using an older laptop and usb to serial converter, even if you had to run windows 98 to do it, at a real push, you could get an older pc set up and talking to it, and with a decent scope with serial decode, reverse enginner the requried commands and come up with a replacement app. In 30 years time, what will we be able to do with the USB stuff they make today? [/QUOTE]
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