Damn, I won't be buying GTR afterall - 2

I was just at the coffe machine, the guy who uses the laptop to maintain the
automated thingy, says he needed a second dongle, so that he could work on a
program hopefully at his desk, and have the laptop to do it's job of remote
usable ya know (even occasionally used off site, right now the laptop almost
has to stay in place right now with the glitched system needing reset a LOT
via laptop) but they want over 1500 for the dongle... I thought about
taking that one apart, so did he... But at the same time we're nervous
about that one not working if we did, LOL! Yeah he wasn't happy and hasnt
gotten the extra one, but at some point we will have to do it, OR get a lot
newer nicer laptop that he could use at his desk, I guess... But the last
laptop our sales guy had, only had serial port on the port replicator...
would need them sofware companys to a way to use serial to usb adapter, or
maybe a USB dongle? a USB dongle would be nice...

Anyway, depending on how creative I want to be, there is lots of other ways
to fit into the legal use of this software, like a networked PC located at
the automated machine, running Real-VNC is one. Nobody wanted the job of
running that cable that far though, LOL, and wireless wont work in there.


Alan Gauton enlightened us with:
> In article <gHIQd.42176$EG1.2271@lakeread04>,
> says...
>> Industry sofware stuff still uses dongles... hell my label making
>> program has one, the laptop to program the automated mechanisms
>> (cant explain it) at the plant has them for a couple different
>> things. what really is wierd to me, is that on one PC around here
>> had 4 dongles for 4 softwares. of them 3 serial, and one on the
>> parrallel port. they were plugged into each other on the serial, I
>> would have though this would cause problems with each others dongle,
>> but never did... hmmm.
>>
>>> Does anyone remember dongles? Never used one for a racing game but
>>> they were all the rage about 15 years ago...
>
> I've a couple in my office as well - don't use the software, and not
> sure if the software works under XP, never mind the dongle.