[nfbcs] Seriaol to USB Monitors

[nancy coffman]

Although they look similar. Monitors aren't usually serial. CGA will tell dales people what you gace. Even tiny netbooks have a VGA port. No USB is needed for a screen.

nancy coffman

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Donahue <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:14 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [nfbcs] Seriaol to USB Monitors

Hello Steve and everyone,

    The monitor in question is a Gateway monitor we bought in 2004. It's 
rather old but still works great.

    When her Gateway fried in 2009 we used the same monitor on her new Dell 
box; the one that caught the virus. There was no problem with this because 
the Dell box had one serial port so it and the Gateway monitor played nice 
together. It's a CRT monitor and takes up lots of room on her desk. Getting 
a new machine that includes a flat screen monitor and possibly one that's 
larger than the old CRT monitor will be wonderful.  I'm just not sure if a 
serial to USB conversion on such an old monitor on a new PC would work.

Peter Donahue
 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Computer Purchesses and Family Members


There are USB to Serial adapters/converters, but they apparently are not all 
created equal.  However, I wonder if the
monitor is truly a serial monitor?  That seems unusual to me.  Also, an old 
monitor I have severely limits the resolution
settings I can choose under Windows 7, and it does not work correctly when I 
go into the CMOS setup screens.  If it
is real old, you might have to just dump it.

I bought a Trendnet USB to Serial converter and it seems to crash my system 
after ten minutes or so when I use it with
an Artic Transport.  It uses the "Prolific" chip set, and I have been told 
that chip set does not work well with devices
that make heavy use of the serial port as to synthesizers.  I am told that 
USBGear uses a different chip set that works
better but have not tried it yet.  Of course, this kind of thing can change 
at any time, but I now wish I had just had a
serial card put in.  The point is just that there are issues when trying to 
use old equipment with new computers.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:58:22 -0700, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home wrote:

>Yes, there are USB serial adapters.

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