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Laptop-To-Tablet Connection Woes - Need Help!

  • 18-07-2004 12:37pm
    #1
    TommyK
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    Hello,

    I have a CAD program (Drawing Express by Trial Systems) that came with a tablet for drawing with.

    This tablet has a DB-9 connector (and it’s power supply is connected to the back of that connector).

    I’ve bought a new laptop to use it on and, while I made sure it had a DB-25 port to connect the program’s security dongle (one of those little gizmo’s to stop you using it on more than one computer at a time), I never thought about the damn tablet! You can then connect a printer to the back of the dongle.

    The laptop has a female port with 3 rows of 5 holes. I’m not sure what this is for but I think it has something to do with VGA (?) I doubt I could get an adapter for this (or could I?).

    I was wondering – instead of connecting a printer to the dongle, is it possible to get a DB-25 to DB-9 adapter (both sides of the adapter would have to be male connectors) and connect the tablet to it instead? (Am I betraying a terrible ignorance of how these ports work by asking that question?).

    Also, the laptop does have a DIN port to connect an external keyboard or mouse (At least, I think they’re called DIN ports - it’s round with 6 holes around the circumference and one square hole in the centre near the top). I know these are almost always serial on PCs but I’m not sure about laptops. Is it possible to get an adapter to connect the tablet to this?

    Failing that, is it possible to get a DB-9 port fitted to the laptop!?

    Help!

    Tommy.


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