JP1 Remotes

yup, tried all of that... it's just not recognized.

The butane powered soldering iron from radio shack is also $20 and comes with the 2 tips. (Normal point tip and a torch tip) I think the cold heat soldering iron is a novelty item. I was also a little concerned about the quality of the tip and the unreliability of creating a good connection of tip ...

Yeah, that was me... I was just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem.

I have an IBM thinkpad A31 and I bought a USB cable and it works on one of the HP machines at work but not on my IBM thinkpad A31 or another thinkpad that I have access to but I can't remember what model. Mine is running XP and the other is running windows 98.

I plug it in and it says:
Found New ...

It's worthless... I took it back. It might be good for circuitboards but I haven't done any circuitboard soldering with it. Instead I got a butane powered soldering iron which works great. With the cold heat soldering tool It was very hard to solder two wires together. Part of the reason was that ...

Well I brought my cable and remote into work and tried it on someone else's desktop. Apparently the cable and program does not like my IBM thinkpad or my in-laws thinkpad. Does anyone have it working on a thinkpad?

Ok, I have a RS 15-2116 remote and I have access to two IBM laptop computers. I tried to make a parallel port cable using an IDE cable with no success. I abandoned this aproach in favor of a purchased cable. (from http://jp1.filebug.com/) I decided to go with the USB version.

So I get the cable and ...

I was wondering if anything more has happened here? I have some programming experience and I would like to learn more. I'm having issues loading my usb driver on my work XP laptop so I thought I would try to offer any assistance I can.

I tried to download the IR source from the yahoo files section ...