It has to be male and either 9 or 25-pin. If he's feeling something 15-pin female, it's a video port. Nick On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:54:15 -0600 (CST), Adam Myrow wrote: I've never heard of a 15-pin serial port. I thought they were all either 9 or 25 pins. Are you sure that's a serial port? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup