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Jack Erbes
 
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Dennis Pogson wrote:

William G. Andersen wrote:

Get a cable that is USB at the PC end and Serial at the GPS end. I
saw one advertised in today's paper, probably at Fry's. If they have
it, any PC place hould have it.



Didn't know there was such a thing! TheGarmin plug wired to a USB plug?


There has been a lot of interest in adapting Garmin GPS to various
ports. I think Garmin has two or more proprietary plugs called
something like the "eTrex plug" and the "round four pin" plug. There
are adapters for those to DB-9 and USB serial ports. A web search will
bring up a lot of info on this:

http://www.pfranc.com/cables/index.mhtml
http://www.gomadic.com/latogpsca.html

Jack

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