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peter lucy - 29 Mar 2004 19:59 GMT

thinking about buying a palm tungsten T2 and want to download dives from
Aladin Pro Nitrox.
Question.
I have home made interface but need help on making interface for pda and
some recommendations for dive software, (windows based if poss). anyone
already using this setup.

Thanks

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Gavin Carey - 29 Mar 2004 23:06 GMT

> thinking about buying a palm tungsten T2 and want to download dives from
> Aladin Pro Nitrox.
> Question.
> I have home made interface but need help on making interface for pda and
> some recommendations for dive software, (windows based if poss). anyone
> already using this setup.

IIRC you'll need a serial port to plug that interface into, something like
this cable http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=110247 coupled with an
RS232C gender changed (as the cable with have the plug end rather than the
socket end on it), plus the home built interface, and some software,
something like this: http://members.aol.com/GLorensen/divecomp.html.

This page has more information:
http://pakuro.is.sci.toho-u.ac.jp/aladin/palmcable-e.html

I've never done any of this myself mind.

Regards,

Gavin.

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John Wells - 31 Mar 2004 20:10 GMT

> > thinking about buying a palm tungsten T2 and want to download dives from
> > Aladin Pro Nitrox.
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> Gavin.

I made one up for my Handspring Visor some years ago from
the info on the Japanese website. It works pretty well, although
getting it to make contact is sometimes a bit of a pain.

I'm resisting upgrading my Visor mainly for the reason that
it all works with the Aladin. If you can get it going with the Tungsten,
I'd love to know about your experience!

I use Paladin and DiveBuddy (www.magayon.de) to log dives. DiveBuddy
can also export (using a CASL conduit) to Windows, and you can use
a "pdb2log" program to convert logs to Datatrak LOG format.

HTH

John

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