[P1] palm won't connect
don hinkle
donhinkle at att.net
Tue Aug 19 23:54:34 PDT 2003
sounds like that serial cable could do for me. where'd you get it?
Brian Olesky wrote:
> Most of us who've been using Palms for several years have long accepted the
> fact that their USB sync cradles only work with PC's, and the only way we
> can use them is to get their non-USB cradles and add a serial to USB
> adapter.
>
> It was true 5 years ago, it's true today. I just bought a $600 phone from
> Sprint, with a built-in Palm, and I had to spend $50 more to get a serial
> cable designed for one of their old discontinued models to be able to sync
> it with my iBook.
>
> Life as a dedicated Mac user does have its drawbacks.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 8/19/03 11:31 PM, "George Slusher" <gslusher at rio.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Does your iBook have USB? (I thought all of them did.) If so, you could
>>get a USB cable for the Palm fairly cheaply (Check eBay, for example) and
>>eliminate the USB-serial converter problem.
>
>
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