On Tue, 3 May 2005 23:05:44 -1000, "Rich" rsmith @aloha.net wrote:

Aloha folks,

First time in this group.

I race on a boat here in Hawaii and I've been trying to get the owner to
buy the Performance Processor for our otherwise top B&G system so we can
hook up a laptop to it.

He doesn't want to spend the money. :-}

So I'm wondering if the brain trust here might know another way to get
an RS232 interface that would cost less?

I just looked at the B&G site and from what I can gather from limited
information, the data strings are in NMEA format - which would mean
that RS232 would be a simple in/out function - the signal levels
should be approximately the same (but don't my word for it). It's
just a question of finding the right signal pair and building a cable
for it.

Later,

Tom