How to connect Garmin Forerunner GPS to laptop computer. if you have a garmin gps forerunner and want to connect computer by a parallel cable, how toI connect it to laptop which dont have parallel connections now?

does your garmin gps Forerunner use a parallel connection? That connector is very wide and flat. I am fairly certain the Forerunner uses a serial cable. This connector is two rows high and maybe five pins wide. The parallel connector has many more pins.

If it uses serial, just buy a serial to USB converter. Be forewarned that serial to USB converters do not always play nicely with programs that are expecting to deal directly with a serial port. I tried to use a serial to USB converter with a Garmin eTrex and I spent half an hour messing around before it would connect.

or you can go to your local Electronics store and talk to a tech about what you need (probably a conversion device) parallel to USB. but the parallel may not handle the proper flow for the garmin GPS, I don’t know. Try talking to a tech, they may have a short solution.

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