[Duo2400] Re: ADB to USB?

Ivan Drucker ivanxqz at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 25 11:50:49 PDT 2003


Who makes the adapter, or how can I do this? I'd be interested in it even 
with hellacious throughput.

Ivan.

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>Yes you can and yes the throughput is slower than hell.  But workable. 
> Really not worth the cost of the adapter.  You can also do Serial  / USB
>which is just as bad.  As far as function sometimes it works sometimes 
>it don't. Problem being in most cases you have to do the hookup 
>backwards of what they intended.
>
>Brandy
>ivanxqz at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>Sorry to say, but you can safely forget about it. There is no way that I 
>know of to attach any USB device to any non-PCI Mac -- I welcome anyone 
>to correct me, but I've looked into it and I think it's a no go. Besides, 
>the throughput of ADB is so slow that your USB device would probably be 
>painful to use, if it functioned at all.
>
>Ivan.
>
>
>
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