There is another option for getting a serial connection on a
modern PC, which is a network serial device such as the RocketPort
or DeviceMaster from Comtrol (other companies are available and
these may not even be the best options from Comtrol).? All PCs
nowadays have network ports and most of us have networks.? The
network serial devices are small boxes that contain a tiny
computer and have one or more serial port and a network
connection.? The drivers will make one of these look like a
standard serial port on the PC (actually it can be accessed by any
PC on the network).? They are more complicated than the simple
USB-serial (or USB-MIDI) devices as they are nowadays mostly used
for industrial control applications (and probably somewhat more
expensive too).? I'm just mentioning these as I've used them for
work applications for serial control from modern PCs - I haven't
used them for MIDI or RS232 etc serial connections.
Regards,
Richard.
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In case anyone is interested, found an answer to my question
about using the 'To Host' port with a modern computer here...
