Timeline for How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?
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| Aug 27, 2024 at 3:31 | comment | added | LurkingKiwi | @davolfman I think you are combining two issues. FTDIGate caused clone devices announcing they were FTDI to brick themselves. AIUI Prolific removed the PIDs of their earlier chips from the signed driver INF files, rendering them unusable, because there were so many badly implemented clones it was giving Prolific a bad reputation. | |
| Aug 23, 2024 at 16:31 | comment | added | davolfman | @justme I read it as they used FTDI's driver so they wouldn't have pay to develop and pay to sign their own. The short is: some serial adapters just don't work if they're old enough. | |
| Aug 23, 2024 at 15:46 | comment | added | Justme | @davolfman If you are referring to the "FTDIgate scandal", I would not know. Why would Prolific make chips that read Prolific on them but the chips saying to PC they are FTDI VID:PID? They were fake FTDI chips with fake FTDI labels that stopped working when FTDI made some driver/firmware update that did not work on unofficial/clone chips. It's really not FTDIs fault they tried to make updates that bricked cloned chips, I bet they did not do it on purpose. | |
| Aug 22, 2024 at 20:56 | comment | added | davolfman | Aren't the Prolific adapters the ones that FTDI broke with their driver hacking? | |
| Aug 22, 2024 at 19:51 | comment | added | Justme | Well, that's cleary not an Arduino toy but a real USB-RS232-UART adapter. It looks so familiar that I likely have used same adapter too, it likely has a Prolific PL2302 USB UART chip (not best but adequate) and some Maxim or similar RS-232 transceiver with charge pump for boosting the USB 5V to maybe +/- 7V. | |
| Aug 22, 2024 at 8:32 | history | answered | LurkingKiwi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |