[TPR] Asa Jay Laughton wants you to see this review at Amazon.com

[Asa Jay Laughton]

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      Asa writes: 
  Back in 2008, TPR President Dennis "Mad Dawg" Antenucci gave me an old Garmin GPS III Plus in hopes I might put it to use myself in some upcoming ORR.  When I moved to a new Windows7 64-bit computer, I no longer had any serial ports to plug this in to do data analysis.

I know some of you have used or are still using this same kind of GPS (the older ones that work better and are more accurate).  So if you have one of these that requires a serial port, and you're running a newfangled computer -without- serial ports, check out the review I just wrote on Amazon for a product that saved the day.

Asa Jay

  
    
  
  






























  
  
      












    







    
    


    
    
    
    Resurrected my Garmin GPS III Plus, December 2, 2011
byAsa Jay Laughton

After moving to a 64-bit Windows computer running Windows 7, I no longer had serial ports to communicate with older equipment. Based on reviews of this and other cables, I decided to try this one. I'm also familiar with the FTDI driver set as we use them in some of our products. This serial to USB cable uses the well-known FTDI VCP driver set to make a USB port look just like a serial port. Although the cable...

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This review is from: USB to RS232 Serial DB9 Cable Adapter FTDI Chipset 10 Feet Supports Windows 7 64bit (Electronics)

    USB to RS232 Serial DB9 Cable Adapter FTDI Chipset 10 Feet Supports Windows 7 64bit 
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