At 11:59 PM 3/7/00 -0800, Mark Newland wrote: >I need something more than just a "simple" data transfer unit Only need to >transfer small amounts of data (only useing a 4K EEPROM) but need to have the >flexibility that a PDA would offer. The cradle (as others have mentioned) >would be great to get the information to it's final destination of the PC >which is another reason I've thought about going this route. Hi again. I was suggesting a Palm's serial port for the data gathering part of your problem as well as actually dumping the data to the PC. That serial port CAN be used by the application running on the Palm. The fellow who wrote the app that we did the hardware for used Code Warrier and said it was not problem at all. His app both reads and writes the little add-on we built that slides onto the Palm Pilots. What comes out of the Palm is true RS-232 (I think that it is a Sipex SP232 inside the Pilot). You would need to convert that back to CMOS levels before it could talk to your truck mounted box. You could use IR, but unless there is a real problem implementing a connector and cable for your truck mounted box, why bother? dwayne Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 16 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2000) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email.