Hotsyncing PalmPilots On Multiple COM Ports?

lmsig asks: "I've recently run into a dilemma. I own a Palm IIIxe and my wife was given a Palm m100 for a Christmas gift. Unfortunately they have different shapes and use different cradles and cables to HotSync. I didn't think this would be a big deal; just throw one into each COM port; low and behold I have to reconfigure the software each time since it can only support one device. Palm has told me that they do not support the use of multiple cradles on a single desktop. Does anyone have any creative ideas to conveniently access both devices?" Considering the fact that high-tech households will have more than one Pilot, I think Palm has dropped the ball on this one. Why is it that the Hotsync software can only be operated on one port? Does the Unix software have this limitation?

Comments

Serial switchbox

[ksheff]

Why not just get a serial A/B switchbox and run the common cable into the com port that the Palm pilot software expects the hot sync cradles to be on. You can still have both cradles hooked up, the palm software should still work, and it's cheap (approx $10-$20 for the box + cable). Sure, you have the minor inconvience of having to flip a switch and remembering if your cradle is on A or B, but it's simple. That is unless you wanted to sync both PDAs at the same time...