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vb comms

fly747ie · 2006-02-27 08:42:51

I need to communicate a development board to VB6 on my laptop, I know VB has has MScomm which is serial but the problem is that my laptop only has a parallel port. I was just wandering if there is a way around this and how easy it would be? thanx

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27-02-2006 9:42am

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fly747ie

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I need to communicate a development board to VB6 on my laptop, I know VB has has MScomm which is serial but the problem is that my laptop only has a parallel port. I was just wandering if there is a way around this and how easy it would be?

thanx

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#2 27-02-2006 12:33pm
charlo_b

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Buy a USB to Serial Cable ...... they only cost about €10-20

Like this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=447

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