[ale] [Slightly OT] Prolific

[mike at trausch.us]

On 11/04/2012 08:26 PM, Matt Hessel wrote:
> The prolific chip is the most commonly counterfeited hardware too.  I
> had one that worked in Windows, but nothing else. found out that the
> adapter was a fake.  Prolific had a site up talking about the
> counterfeited stuff.

Interesting.  How would such a thing be detected?  By the fact that it 
don't work?

I reiterate that I must be extraordinarily unlucky.  I have purchased 
cables from Amazon, NewEgg, and Fry's, and I have _yet_ to have the vast 
majority of them work.

I bought a USB-to-dual-serial-port cable a few years back, but (of 
course) I can't find it to save my life.

	--- Mike

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