Ughhh, this thread is beginning to give me a headache and I know all of this already. This should definately be a faq. Anyway, I just wanted to recomend the Keyspan PDA adapter. It does work, is cheaper than the alternatives, and will make life generally simpler. I have not had any probles with serial under VPC with my empeg, but I have not used it that extensively (just make sure nothing else is using the serial port). -Mike