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On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, behildre wrote: > I recently bought a PC 500 Digital camera. I took a few snapshops, hooked > ... > I thought it would be good to use my Thinkpad 701C so I could go portable. > I have 12 Meg memory, enough hard drive space disk drive (the little > external that came with it) and the, I guess it is a dock, little clip on > thing that goes across the back and allows me to use an external monitor > and a printer. I have used it for both of those, so I guess that works ok. > > I need a serial port....I though the mouse port in the back on the dock > would work. It didn't. The 701 doesn't have a serial plug built into it. The dock does. It's the 9-pin port. The mouse port is a PS/2 plug, which just happens to have the same pinout as a Macintosh serial plug, which means you're probably using the Macintosh serial cable that came with your camera. You should be using the PC serial cable, which ends in a DB9 or DB25 plug. > Do I have to disable the eraser head, am I in the wrong port? any ideas.? With the dock attached, the 701 has more ports than IRQs. You may have to disable the internal modem or IR port to get the serial port to work, although in my experience Windows has either 1) not cared, or 2) randomly chosen to let it work or not. A good (faster) option for digital cameras is to invest the money in a flash card (although I don't think the Epson PC500 supports flash cards). The card is just a PCMCIA linear or ATA memory card that'll work just fine in a laptop. You'll be able to trasfer data with it much faster than over a serial cable. Just pop it out of the camera and into your computer, then copy the pictures off it as if it were a hard drive. You may want to borrow/buy the Jeteye serial IR adapter and see if you can get the camera to drive it. The 701 *does* have a serial IR port built in. -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com