On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 at 19:01:12, Alan Gardiner
wrote in uk.sci.weather :



I tried one of those, but it crashed my PC.

I had that problem with my original serial-to-USB adapter. There seem to be
some poorly designed unit out there which is why I remarked that the
Maplin's one was OK.

Except that the one that crashed my PC was *from* Maplins...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)