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Why Is It Called the Software Wedge. A Wedge (or keyboard wedge) is a hardware device that connects between a computer and its keyboard. Typically a wedge provides a serial port that allows data to be inputted from a serial device as if it was being typed in on the keyboard. Before the development of the Software Wedge, keyboard wedges were the only available solution if you needed to input serial data directly into an off the shelf program like Excel, Lotus or dBase, etc. Unfortunately, keyboard wedges are severely limited in capability, are painfully slow, and they cannot support two way serial I/O. They are also expensive, prone to failure and can be difficult or impossible to install, especially on a laptop that does not have a keyboard port. The Software Wedge is a software only alternative to a keyboard wedge that allows you to connect a serial device directly to your PC's serial port with no need for any additional hardware, thus the name: Software Wedge. Because the Software Wedge is implemented as a software product, it works directly with your PC’s operating system and can therefore operate much faster than a hardware wedge. It can also provide features that are either difficult or impossible to implement in a hardware product such as data parsing, filtering, formatting and translation functions, fully bi-directional serial I/O capability, date/time stamping functions and support for operating system specific features like Dynamic Data Exchange and true background operation. If you compare features, the Software Wedge is light years ahead of even the most sophisticated hardware wedge available. If you compare prices you’ll also find the Software Wedge to be far more economical as well.

Why Is It Called the Software Wedge. A Wedge (or keyboard wedge) is a hardware device that connects between a computer and its keyboard. Typically a wedge provides a serial port that allows data to be inputted from a serial device as if it was were being typed in on the keyboard. Before the development of the Software Wedge, keyboard wedges were the only available solution if you needed to input serial data directly into an off the shelf program like Excel, Lotus or dBase, etc. Unfortunately, keyboard wedges are severely limited in capability, are painfully slow, and they cannot support two way serial I/O. They are also expensive, prone to failure and can be difficult or impossible to install, especially on a laptop Laptop that does not have a keyboard port. The Software Wedge is a software only alternative to a keyboard wedge that allows you to connect a serial device directly to your PC's serial port with no need for any additional hardware, thus the name: Software Wedge. Because the Software Wedge is implemented as a software product, it works directly with your PC’s operating system and can therefore operate much faster than a hardware wedge. It also can also provide features that are either difficult or impossible to implement in a hardware product such as data parsing, filtering, formatting filtering and translation functions, fully bi-directional serial I/O capability, date/time stamping functions and support for operating system specific features like Dynamic Data Exchange and true background operation. If you compare features, the Software Wedge is light years ahead of even the most sophisticated hardware wedge available. If you compare prices you’ll also find the Software Wedge to be far more economical as well.. Getting Started‌‌‌