Wide band decisions...

[EagleMark]

I'd like to have an old XP laptop with serial port, just for all this old technoligy. Seen a couple running at pawn shops but $100. plus they all need a battery and they are old so who knows how long they'd last... or $2500 for a new ToughBook...

OK everyone is going to have to start making all this crap work with USB or it get's boycott! But all my serial port stuff works with my USB to Serial adapter...

Did you see that other Wide Band in other thread? No free air calibration! Plus it had a data box that did other stuff... ProLogger!

[1project2many]

I don't blame ya, Six. I still use my Win 98 powered IBM Thinkpad for tuning. I spent many years fighting hardware, learning quirks, &etc. and when I get the tuning equipment out I want to be able to get the job done that I intended to do. I bought a newer, faster laptop with Win2k several years ago for OBDII tuning. It does nothing else. I am now in the market for the new CAN bus style TunercatII cable and I'm buying the USB version.

FWIW several years ago I bought up a huge lot of Silicom PCMCIA serial adapter cards that worked very well with Datamaster. Sold most of them but kept a few for myself. None of the usb to serial converters worked consistently at the time. I have never checked into whether or there are any express card versions but I'd think it's worth it to have one if your laptop has an express slot because you just don't know what you'll need to connect to. :)

I like the DIY2.

[EagleMark]

I never thought of a serial card for adapter cards because all the old laptops had serial. Just looked at my new laptop, that I have had 2 years and it has so many things I have never used and one looks like a adapter card slot! With something in it? So I pushed it in and it popped out and I have a remote control!

[EagleMark]

My PCMCIA is a phony and only has have the connection in back for the remote. Why a laptop needs a remote I do not know? I guess to watch movies on TV as it has so many other monitor and HD outputs...

But it does have an SD slot, I wonder if one of these would work or cause more issues then a Serail to USB converter?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Syba-SD-EX...item2a1afb24ba

[Six_Shooter]

That is a PCMCIA card that is what 1project was talking about.

Why add more cost, parts and possibility of a component failure, when you can have native USB in the device?

Why is there continued discussion of serial interface in a thread where serial is not even a consideration.

If it makes you feel any better, I use a home made serial ALDL cable on my test bench.

[EagleMark]

We know that serial is not an option for you and I agree! It is 2012 and why anyone is making products with serial port attatchments just confuses me!

But you know how conversations here just keep going with new ideas...

I was just thinking if I had a serial port I could plug in my wideband to log seperate while still logging through extra port on some ECM/PCM or what I normally do tied into my AutoProm.

[PJG1173]

We know that serial is not an option for you and I agree! It is 2012 and why anyone is making products with serial port attatchments just confuses me!

But you know how conversations here just keep going with new ideas...

I was just thinking if I had a serial port I could plug in my wideband to log seperate while still logging through extra port on some ECM/PCM or what I normally do tied into my AutoProm.

thought of that but couldn't get the data to sync up and Tunerpro couldn't accept input from multiple data sources.