I have bought two Serial-USB adapters. That is, the adapters which allow
to connect serial devices (like Palm Pilot cradles) to modern computers
which have USB ports but no serial ones.
Unfortunately I still have not managed to make the serial port of my
Blackbird (the POWER9 computer) work. So I'm using the adapter on all
my modern devices.
I have several of these things: an original Palm-branded one (which
still works on PowerPC Apple computers) and some unbranded devices. It
seems that there is an universal rule: they all works on Linux without
issues but they refuse to work on the W10 (I even have a new driver CD
with"W10 drivers" but it makes no difference) The Palm-branded one
seems to make on Apples very well (OK, I first have to start the
HotSync daemon and only, and only, then connect the adapter to the
compute) but it is not so reliable on Linuxes. But even the cheapest
unbranded adapter woks perfectly for me on any Linux I have tested.
I must say that it makes difference to have the PDA directly
connected to my desktop. I have traditionally used my SGI for Palm
synchronization but it made impossible to sync things at work (where I
have no SGI, of course).
Written on the TRGpro with the LandWare GoType keyboard.
