Re: Floppy, USB and Palm
- Subject: Re: Floppy, USB and Palm
- From: "Baxter" <lbax02.spamguard@baxcode.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:14:24 -0700
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
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- Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot:177683
The problem is that the Palm is a USB "slave" and cannot have USB
peripherals of it's own (cannot act as a host/master).
It is _rumored_ that this will be fixed in future versions of Palm hardware.
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"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
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> The new models from Palm have changed from the Universal Connector to USB
(a
> stupid move in my opinion because it makes older peripherals obsolete).
> There must be convertors (physical wires) from USB to serial or parallel
> port, which may be more compatible with the old machine. I don't know how
> much effort and time you are willing to invest in this though. Are you
> trying to back up your data on a second hard-drive? It is a smart choice
if
> that is the case.
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