On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:24:37 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:

In article ,
Dick Locke wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:30:38 GMT, Dick Locke
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:22:46 GMT, (Larry W4CSC) wrote:

Works fine. Tiger Direct has them....www.tigerdirect.com....about $39


Larry, thanks for the advice, but are you sure we're talking about the
same thing? Tiger direct doesn't have this or as near as I can tell
anything like it. Other stores have it in the $80-$100 range. This is
PCMCIA female to USB male. Tiger seems to only have the other way
around.

Forgive me for replying to myself, but I just thought of how my
message could be misunderstood. Let me rephase:

I want to plug some radio equipnment that terminates with a male
pcmcia card into a computer that only has female USB sockets
available.

Looks to me like you need a PCMCIA/USB Card for you Radio Gear
and then connect the USB output of that card to your USB connector
on the Laptop. That caould be done.

Bruce in alaska


OCENS latest version is USB output. They will upgrade my unit for a
mere .995 boat buck. I don't want to do that....

Putting all my requirements together, I need a computer with

Serial port for GPS (I could use a serial-USB adapter but would rather
not)
PCMCIA socket which comes on either a full height or half height PCI
card.
40+ gig hard drive for charts and photo storage
USB printer port
At least one remote monitor, and possibly two.
CD burner for archiving photos
DVD player for watching prerecorded movies
A couple extra USB ports.
Not a whole lot of speed

Fit in a convenient space that is 5" wide, 17" high and about 13"
deep. The "deep" part seems to be the stumbling block. There needs to
be room for cabling out the back.


I may just go with a laptop, mounted somehow under the nav table. It
would be nice if the laptop had an exterior on switch so I don't have
to pull the laptop out to open it up and turn it on.

I keep hearing stories about the $400 used laptop but haven't found
those yet.